Early on, my emotional work had to do with feeling unheard and invisible.

When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!

You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening

Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper

When you face your fears, you are free of them. There's nothing in the world I need to hide from again

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

I started dating older men, and I would fall in love with them. I thought they could teach me about life.

I stopped dating for six months a year ago. Dating requires a lot of energy and focus.

I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination

People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power

Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.

Tradition is a fragile thing in a culture built entirely on the memories of the elders.

I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car.

Intuition without reason is the fertile mother of blunders and wrongs.

The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest.

I love surprises! That's what is great about reading. When you open a book, you never know what you'll find.

Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.

If you close the door to the things you feel comfortable with, you will never discover the truth about yourself.

Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.

Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation.