I get a moral satisfaction out of putting things together.

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.

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

The UK is one of the only nations on earth that has actually met and even exceeded its goals under the Kyoto Protocol.

Weapons of war have no place on our streets.

I always tell D-West, 'We're the leaders on the team, and if we go down, we've got to go down shooting.'

I was known as the little girl with the big voice.

Children are our greatest untapped resource.

I'm a happy camper because by doing this I have an opportunity to be on the cutting edge of research.

This is how I understand literature - as a kind of remix or echo chamber. What's going on in a literary work are other literary things disinterred, cannibalized, and recombined.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.