We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
“If you're open to it, New Orleans will teach you about yourself, but if you want to hide from who you really are, the city will help you do that, too.”
“Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.”