Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to.

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.

What's the point of a houseful of books you've already read?

The praise and glorification of God doesn't exclusively spring from deep and untroubled understanding

Thank you Earth for I've never known a better friend

Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.

Shiloh had as many casualties as Waterloo, and yet there were another 20 Waterloos to come.

If there are questions then, of course, there are answers, but the final answer makes the questions seem absurd.

The world won't step into its greatness until we step into ours.

I do try to experience the emotions as they come, but sometimes it becomes just too much.

Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.

Unfortunately, inner feelings and potential are often stunted by our parents, relatives or peers.