Boy poison - a boy's kisses were like a poison, which infected you and after you were exposed you craved more, like an addict.

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.

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

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.

There must be darkness to see the stars.

When everything becomes tangled, you should make the choice.

I should have been out there having a wild time like all the other girls my age, but I wasn't. I was going home every night to what was, initially, a very happy marriage.

You see, but you do not observe.

I don't pay much attention to career or what other people think. I've always been quite arrogant.

Where love is absent there can be no woman.

Our ancestors have travelled the iron age; the golden is before us.

A mother's love liberates.

Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

Being scared is part of being alive. Accept it. Walk through it.