I think that as you learn more about writing you learn to be direct.

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.

Reflections they give meThat my mirror does notThey know the new meNot the old meThat I am not

Social media takes time and careful, strategic thought. It doesn’t happen by accident.

You glorify God with gratitude.

The revelations of the Father and the Son are conveyed through the third member of the Godhead, even the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost is the witness of and messenger for the Father and the Son.

Admiration: Our feeling of delight that another person resembles us.

The only way to ever truly get your confidence and swagger back, I've learned, is to fight for them.

They say drugs are not the answer, but really, what is the question?

I would do anything to keep looking the job. I think you make an extra effort if you're on show.

I believe in magic, psychics and all that.

Labor is service and service is life. And when we serve something more than ourselves, we feel alive.