Between children and parents there is a difficulty of seeing each other simply as people.

She thought of how much people changed you. It was the opposite of what you always heard, that no one could change a person. It wasn't true. It was only through other people that one ever did change.

There is no good reason. Don't waste your life waiting for good reasons...You'll wait and wait.

There are aspects of love that I once undervalued. Kindness. Having a sort of honor when love is on the table.

Desire suppressed finds its way into other more surreal settings, into dreams.

Off the packed trail we experience the miracle of corn snow, skiing atop the crust, like skiing on an eggshell that has been sprinkled with sugar.

Recording a scene with paint rather than film sinks you more deeply into your surroundings. You have to look a little harder and a little longer. And you end up with a memento.

A struggle, to the person experiencing it, is a struggle.

I first travelled to Africa at the end of 1996 and was immediately captivated. I had planned on a three-week trip, and I ended up staying two months.

Change and renewal are themes in life, arent they? We keep growing throughout life.

Illness can make us behave in the most surprising ways.

There are some things you can’t learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life... the only college where everyone is a permanent student.

The great poets are full of bullshit. Love has nothing on hatred's capacity to give a man purpose.

There’s always stuff to work on. You’re never there.

Being interviewed is one of the most abnormal things that you can do to somebody else. It's two steps removed from the Inquisition.

If you want to call me a bigot, fine.

Decisions are the endless uncertainties of life that we'll not know if they're right until the very end, so do the best you can and hope its right.

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered.

If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.

If you want to put a price on carbon why not just do it with a simple tax?

I'm a simple girl. I just like the simple things in life.