All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifference that falls between us and that blinds us to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight.

Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.

Insight doesn't happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within.

No art ever came out of not risking your neck.

it doesn t matter if it takes a long time getting there; the point is to have a destination.

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.

We are the breakers of our own hearts

People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.

Being present to yourself in love and with kindness is the ultimate gift.

Seek within to discover your true passion in life, and then promise yourself to never give up until you introduce the light of reality to it.

I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.

When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other?

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

I have also come to understand Congress' need for a bipartisan as well as a partisan capacity.

I'm really loving and open at the same time.

The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words.... beyond these, like an immense dark continent, lies all that has made them.

You can't play hockey with a bald spot, so I'm hanging up the skates.

They write them long because they can't write them short.