At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of it.

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.

I know that the future seems hard and scary, but it will get better, I promise. It's time for you to move on. Get going.

I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer.

Delegating your accountabilities is abdication

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

I've been very lucky. I've had my problems in the past, I've had my troubles, but you move on. I had a great life and I am really thankful for it.

And nobody lies as much as the indignant do.

There are really only two positions one can take toward anything in life: hope or fear. Hope strengthens, fear kills.

If one must fight one should confine oneself to conventional weapons.

Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.

I am a lover, not a fighter.