The strands are all there; to the memory nothing is ever lost.

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.

At the pit's bottom is no anger.

I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough.

I had fallen in love, even if she was still finding her way.

Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair--or the height of a battle against boredom.

For the night Shows stars and women in a better light.

In this business, you gotta hustle.

It makes sense to me that the polyglot wouldn't know what language he dreamed in.

I don't take breaks, I just break records

There is another bend in the road after this. No one knows what will happen.

You don't have to think exactly like me.