No art ever came out of not risking your neck.

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.

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.

To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.

Don't put off happiness you can have today. Tomorrow is a hope, not a promise

Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.

I pulled myself from his mind, day by day, piece by piece, memory by memory, until there was nothing of Ruby left to weigh him down or keep him bound to my side..

In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project.

Just make it (his obituary): born in Russia, first lesson at 3, debut at 7, debut in America in 1917.

Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door.

We all have these notions of cool that come about at different points in our lives, and it's interesting in how it evolves or doesn't evolve in different people.

The thing that I really want to try and do is just live my life really openly and honestly. I think there's so much power in that, as simple as it is.

No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.