My mother read secondarily for information; she sank as a hedonist into novels. She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.

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.

Hope was never meant to beA future shared alone, As life cannot be won or lostIt was never ours to own.

I hope I can help guys come out and say, 'All right, dude, I got a manicure... and I liked it.'

I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.

She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse.

Music says so much. Really specific but those are also real tonal things as well.

Modesty is the artifice of actors, similar to passion in call girls.

I actually don't have a TV and I've been traveling so I've missing out on a lot of stuff.

The road does not always bring out the best in people.

Young people's reading choices are influenced by their peers.

Beautiful words are ugly motives best friends.