While weight loss is important, what's more important is the quality of food you put in your body - food is information that quickly changes your metabolism and genes.
The real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge.
Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise.
Never feel dumb. Not knowing who or what is no sin. Ignorance is simply the measure of what you haven't got to yet. I find writers and works every day that I haven't got to, haven't even heard of.
The difference between being Achilles and almost being Achilles is the difference between living and dying.
The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, visions of ourselves that we would never see, never permit ourselves to become, in places we can never go and might not care to, while assuring that we get to return home again.
Real people are made out of a whole lot of things-flesh, bone, blood, nerves, stuff like that. Literary people are made out of words.
The body is a place where our mind resides, and that's what I'm photographing.
My life honestly isn't as weird as people think it is. I work longer hours, maybe I have a bit more money, but fundamentally, I'm not really that different.
It bewilders me when people speak to you rudely or are mean, because I'd never be that way.
I'm not afraid of silence. You know, I'm not afraid to sit in a room and have the conversation drop into silence. I think that's a very southern thing.