A thing is incredible, if ever, only after it is told -- returned to the world it came out of.

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 strongest storms make the best sailors. The strongest games make the best players. Tougher challenges make the best leaders.

I'd love to be animated. I've always wanted to jump off of a bridge and not be hurt, like Bugs Bunny.

I do not want a husband who honors me as a queen if he does not love me as a woman.

The hardest game to win is a won game

Nature imitates mathematics.

A toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it.

My dog learned how to beg by watching me through the bedroom door.

I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.

The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.

Highly fed and lowly taught.