The fictional eye sees in, through, and around what is really there.

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 people don't understand the meaning of freedom in their lives, they will continue to live as though they're still oppressed.

He had no idea how to deal with the staggering amount of grief he felt, so he looked to the sun and blinded himself with its light.

We are what ballads are written of, what bards sing of. We are epic, you and I.

I am harmony.I was harmony.I have always been harmony.I was born by harmony and I will go by complete harmony.

I don't find acting to be a particularly noble way to make a living. I'm not saving anybody's life, I'm not a teacher, I'm not working for UNICEF. I don't think I'm some big deal.

I cannot explain why they made that sequel to Secret of NIMH. Because they claim that it the original didn't make money, so what was the enthusiasm to make a sequel?

Of course, individuals vary greatly within each racial group and should be treated as such.

It's nice to have someone write a couture character for you.

It is important to remember that we are energy. Einstein told us that. And energy cannot be created or destroyed, it just changes form.

Cabin Fever was murder. There was a lot of psychological stress, like not knowing if we were going to finish the movie. The day we arrived to start rehearsals, our main investors pulled out.