One place comprehended can make us understand other places better.

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.

It’s not enough to hear or think about the truth, we must experience it for ourselves if we are to truly know it.

Critics are those righteous experts who judge other people's hard earned accomplishmens as they themselves stand on the sidelines of life.

He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life.

Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death.

I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.

We are masters because we have the power to create and to rule our own lives.

I take my dog Tinkerbell seriously. I take my job seriously. But I don't take myself all that seriously.

I'm a bit uncomfortable, truth be told, with being seen as an expert, because there is always so much more to learn. I see myself as a perpetual student of the goddess.

Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself.

You never know, lightning could strike.