Passion is our ground, our island - do others exist?

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.

Your family's never in your past. You carry it around with you everywhere.

Every conceivable layer of the election process is completely riddled with vulnerabilities, so yes, hacking elections is easy!

Ireland is a fatal disease fatal to Englishmen and doubly fatal to Irishmen.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Nothing should be an issue when it comes to sexuality in the first place. Music is the one artform where people feel comfortable coming out.

Sometimes armchair quarterbacks are doing it to enhance their own image. I'm just not comfortable with that idea.

She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow.

Don't think there are no second chances. Life always offers you a SECOND CHANCE... It's called TOMORROW

There's nothing worse than watching an old wrinkly guy going, 'Hey, baby.' You're like, 'Dude, that's lame.' It's cool to fall in love and grow old with someone.

I'd say I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid He might hear me.