Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories.

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.

I can hear your angered silence, Taste your bitterness.Now I smell your vengeance, Yet see your lonely emptiness.I am your broken heart.

Always ensure to keep focus on what you desire and not what others want you to focus upon.

Jocelyn did not want to always remain the same. Where was the adventure in that?

Getting to know God and being able to call on Him is the most important step in storing up for the storms.

I've never been lonely because I enjoy my own company.

Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle.

I like to eat meals I will remember. Otherwise, whats the point?

Meditation, more than any other factor, has been the reason for what success I've had.

I like to live life in an understated way because that's who I am - an ordinary guy who has experienced an extraordinary journey.