landscape, that vast still life, invites description, not narration. It is lyric. It has no story: it is the beloved, and asks only to be contemplated.

I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.

People come and go in life, but they never leave your dreams. Once they're in your subconscious, they are immortal.

Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is.

We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time is both spiritual and historical.

Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.

Memory is, first, a captivating mystery.

Fundamentally, [prayer] is a position, a placement of oneself.

No memoirists writes for long without experiencing an unsettling disbelief about the reliability of memory, a hunch that memory is not, after all, just memory.

True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world

Writing is so hard. And then, sometimes, it is so bewilderingly easy.

When you are doing something you love, you see the lover dancing in your heart.

Your past is my Future.

Glory is fleeting but obscurity is forever.

What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?

What man is there that does not laboriously, though all unconsciously, himself fashion the sorrow that is to be the pivot of his life.

I'll be a flop in movies. Besides, I don't like 'em, and I never did believe there was a place called Hollywood. Somebody made it up!

Children really brighten up a household. They never turn the lights off.

Everyday is a holiday when you're RVD

I'm pretty strict with anyone on our crew when people start to draw too well or draw some in-betweens in the animation.

Success is taking what you know, and creating the best you that you can be.