Through travel I first became aware of the outside world it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.

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.

It doesn’t matter how physically fit or tough you are, if you fail to use natures computer between your ears.

Treatment for people with disabilities and mental illness in prewar America reveals a profoundly ignorant medical establishment and educational community.

No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.

I used to go to the US Open on my birthdays and sit in the nosebleeds.

In Manhattan last month I heard a woman borrowing the jargon of junkies to say to another, 'Want to do some chocolate?'

Quiet solitude is a nutritional need of the ascending body.

If you are unwilling to fail, sometimes publicly and even catastrophically, you will never be rich.

Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.

Everyone's crazy except you and me.

Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.