Children like animals use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way all over again.

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.

Follow leaders for their questions, not only for their answers.

Rereading, we find a new book

Every time you cry, your tears put out my candle.

People those enjoy life never thought about death and those thought about death never enjoy life.

It is good if your enemy underestimates you. The dumber they think you are the more surprised they are when you kill them.

All your nights can't be food nights though

Prancing around with marshmallowss on your nipples does *not* constitute living your life fully!

Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.

We tend to Seek Happiness when Happiness is actually a Choice

The next step in my life is hopefully meeting a nice guy and getting married.