I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.

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.

The greatest possessions I leave for my children are books.

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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Making is the mirror in which we see ourselves.

A singer is someone who puts out an album. That's a very generous description.

Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.

If you seek answers you won't find them, but if you seek God, the answers will find you.

Hot tea," he said, holding the cups. "It's just wrong.

I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish.