When I read, I hear what's on the page. I don't know whose voice it is, but some voice is reading to me, and when I write my own stories, I hear it, too.

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.

Better an if then, than an oops.

Understand and challenge your personal narrative. Narratives become choices and actions — which become your life.

I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.

We are always better than before when those we love inflict wounds upon us.

The best thing we can bring to any fight is a calm and compassionate mind.

An inch in a man's nose is much.

Times have changed, but people don't change. That's why ON THE ROAD has never been irrelevant.

Seeing movie people trying to get into TV now who don't understand that is very interesting.

I think that there are a few people that are power manipulators that have gotten control of things.

I just want to make beautiful, glamorous clothes.