I became a boat captain because I loved the water and had been on a boat since I was eight. I captained the boat by myself because I liked being alone.

Risking one's life can be strangely liberating. That's what the sea counsels me.

I am a mystic and am directed by an internal compass. I am not outer-directed.

Design in black and white. Add color for emphasis, when your design is complete.

Running a boat isn't that hard. Just takes doing. Most or all women I ever knew were discouraged from running boats, but it was too late with me.

The feminist movement has not made it to the Gulf of Mexico. Never seen that movement.

Time seems so inconceivably vast, until it crushes, pressing you paper-thin between one broken-heartbeat passed, and the laughter yet to come.

We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to speak up, insofar as we can, for those who cannot do so.

Prosperity knits a man to the world.

Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.

We have to build bridges that are stronger than the bombs that other people might throw

It's a wonderful opportunity to be part of a child's growing up, which is always an endless springtime. You see the blossoming and the growing and the nurturing and the payoff.

When you are working really hard and you're really focused on your career, a lot of other things suffer.

She was one if the few souls that made me wonder what's it to live.

Mafia is the best example of capitalism we have.

I like songs that go to different places and then come back.