How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your neck. And risk--experiment--is a considerable part of the joy of doing.

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.

After all, why be right when you can be happy.

Fun is good.

I eat Fig Newtons by the sleeve.

The body whips the soul. In its great desire it demands the elixir In the roar of spring, transmutations.

We only make the mistakes that we have to make to learn what we're here to learn right now.

Your mission: Be so busy loving your life you have no time for hate, regret or fear.

There are only twelve tones and they need to be treated carefully.

I'm such a history-nerd that, with time for research, I could probably enjoy writing in just about any time period.

Love is blind, you just see bright light

A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.