Look for where the sky is brightest along the horizon. That reflects the nearest river. Strike out for a river and you will find habitation.

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.

A writer can never escape the labyrinth of words inside his mind.

If there is heaven then there must be hell too, don't think that The God is merciful, he didn't create hell for himself.

In computer science, we stand on each other's feet.

We do not need more knowledge, we need more character!

It's important for someone who's dealt with violence to be able to talk to someone, no matter who it is. So I'm vocal about how I feel. That's how I've worked through a lot of my problems.

My life is really precious. I don't want to spend it watching ambient TV that just drifts through you. I've got better things to do.

I thought, I might not look my best, I've forgotten half the words to my songs and I'm suffering from post-traumatic stress, but I've just got to get out there and do it.

There is nothing Madison Avenue can give us that will make us more beautiful women. We are beautiful because God created us that way.

But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter.