I don't know if I would do sequels. I almost feel like when I'm done with them, they're going to have to find their own way.

Didn't I say I'd always be your same stars? If you get to missing me, just look up.

That sinuous southern life, that oblique and slow and complicated old beauty, that warm thick air and blood warm sea, that place of mists and languor and fragrant richness.

I have a theory that Southern madhouses are full of gifted women who were stifled.

A real friendship is a light thing. A real friend holds you loosely.

Perhaps the most important thing we can ever do in our lives is find a way to keep the wild-both the wild inside and the wild outside us-and tap into it.

I don't think you ever think of a big city as sweet or community, but there are cities that I think of as charming and particular and interesting cities. I live in one now, Charleston.

Anger is its own excuse and its own reward.

Life can only be kept by giving it away. But then it will bloom.

I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country where dreams come from.

I think we all get too caught up in doing instead of just being sometimes.

A thin man can squeeze into a fat body, yet you can only squeeze a fat man to become thin

This, it would turn out, is the main thing we had in common: a susceptibility to the brassy escapism of myth.

There are moments in your life that can change you forever, and you Norah, you are my forever moment.

Very few writers thank their mothers for keen editorial insight

To be is to be the value of a variable.

I have three kids and a wife, and any moments that aren't dedicated to working on this film in some way, or family, are immediately reserved for sleep.

Christ does not inhabit buildings or a certain atmosphere; in fact, the very heavens cannot contain Him. Rather, He is manifested through our obedient, sanctified bodies-His temples.

What takes more guts? To fight for your own life at any cost—or prove that you're willing to lose it?

Yog is not only about Rog Mukti but also Bhog Mukti. Yoga can be our cultural ambassador. We can reach out to the world through this medium.

The French aren't perfect, but they have some parenting secrets that really do work.