All experience is an enrichment rather than an impoverishment.

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.

Go according to your curiosity.

How much you can love others without expectations will define who you are.

Life is something whose definition vary person to person.

Mindset is what separates the best from the rest.

I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.

No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.

Flawed characters... a ticking clock... morally questionable acts on all sides... moody, evocative art... oh yeah, this the stuff crime noir fans love!

Debating the best way to do something we shouldn't be doing in the first place is a sure way to end up in the wrong place.

A temple is a landscape of the soul.

The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.