Never think you've seen the last of anything.

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.

Maybe not getting what she wanted gave her everything she wanted after all.

I'll tell you what bravery really is. Bravery is just determination to do a job that you know has to be done.

Dear me. Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion.

It's impossible to redefine yourself and your life overnight.

I am a very shy, introverted guy.

"Don't talk about enlightenment," Buddha would say. He was saying don't talk about the nagual. He'd talk about how to get to it.

When I write I pretend I'm telling a story to someone in the room and I don't want them to get up until I'm finished.

The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities! They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn breath upon the planet.

but sometimes optimism is the only drug that works. But it’s sadly temporary in its effects.

What thought can think, another thought can mend.