The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.

We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.

How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

Love is a joint experience between two persons -- but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

How typical of a machine to think it knows better.

They can send death at once, but life is slower...

To heed the discovery is the key

I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.

Precisely because we cannot predict the moment, we must be ready at all moments.

I waved to you outside but then I realized it was just one of those inflatable parking lot gorillas.

Before death overpowers us, we have great things to accomplish by performing right actions.

Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.

Because you can poke someone's eye out legally doesn't mean you should and that it's right. The Bible teaches us a more perfect justice.

Authenticity is what I've always gone after in my work, and I understand what feels emotionally right, instinctively. Working with actors has just come with experience.