Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story.

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.

When You’re Accustomed to Privilege, Equality Feels Like Oppression

Self-reliance and self-learning are your greatest assets.

Male urination really is a kind of accomplishment, an arc of transcendance. A woman merely waters the ground she stands on.

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

We men are wretched things.

How can we do better tomorrow than we did today?

Stop at home. Arm for Ireland. Fight for Ireland and no other land.

A tourist will come drawn to its beautiful past but we need to put efforts for creating systems to make them stay here.

And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start to mold a new reality closer to the heart.

I don't need to be fixed anymore. That job's already been done. I love you, Annabelle. -Heath Champion-