Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.

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.

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.

To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.

The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.

When, at last, I ceased to be myself, I came to be.

I've had too much money to be able to tell who my friends are...

Existence is the gift. Life is a choice.

What's done, is done

Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.

New York is traditional New York, you know what I'm saying? It's the stomping ground of the hustlers and go-getters

The present moment is all you ever have.

When something's hard, smiling helps us in the end, and it becomes fun.

The director has to win, because you should never force a director to shoot something they don't believe in.