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.

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.

When we awaken to our truth, we realize we are free.

I didn't know silence could be that loud.

What is a house but a bigger skin, and a neighborhood map but the world's skin ever expanding?

Building a solid organ like the liver in the lab is different and harder than with an organ like the bladder because solid organs are very vascular.

In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.

I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.

In a way records are like paintings. Instead of using paints and brushes we use sounds and instruments.

Without real nonviolence, there would be perfect anarchy.

When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life.

Lower prices are not service; they're just lower prices.