No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be steady lucidity and uncompromise of purpose.

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.

The question shouldn't be, 'Are we guilty about our Colonial past?' it should be, 'Why aren't we more guilty about our corporate present?

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud.

There are as many Africas as there are books about Africa.

I wanted to be on the stage, doing very important emotional roles.

There is no primer for being an NFL owner. It is learn-as-you-go.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

If you want the ultimate thrill, you've got to be willing to pay the ultimate price.

Our preachers weren't always right, but they were never in doubt.

I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy.