The mystery in how little we know of other people is no greater than the mystery of how much, Laurel thought.

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.

The Dance is an art because it demands vocation, knowledge, and ability.

When you study in the Scripture, the Scripture clearly teaches we're not our own.

The fans are great. They give me that extra edge.

You can never be too sexy for mainstream television.

You have to develop a very thick skin.

A good job isn't something you go out and find, it's something you discover while you're working.

A young artist can become popular more quickly with the Internet providing instant access to ones work.

L.A. kind of scares me.

Hong Kong is the bellwether. If the Chinese stick to their agreement to let Hong Kong go its own path, then China will also go that way. If they don't, that is a very bad sign. I'm optimistic.

It is silliness to live when to live is torment.