Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?

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.

Sometimes the steepest, most challenging and most rewarding paths in life are not meant to be walked, but crawled.

Engineering is the continuation of politics by other means

You live by whatever rules you need to govern your life the best you think. Let's just try not to encroach.

I'm agnostic. By definition, I'm unsure of what to believe in, but I'm also borderline-capable of believing in anything and everything, or nothing at all... and I want to believe in something.

I have this thing that, once I finish a movie, I never see it again.

Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.

I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.

Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it.

Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.

The measure of love is to love without measuring.