I don't know if it's better to be close with your daughter or make sure that she has a better life than you do.

Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.

There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.

Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.

We accept the love we think we deserve.

I really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a harmonica.

Maybe these are my glory days, and I'm not ever realizing it because they involve a ball.

And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.

And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain, and that didn't matter.

My late husband and I started our sons off as readers at a very young age. Today, they are voracious readers.

my love is a winter’s mistgently dissolvingthrough the windowat the nape of your neck.

I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can't see.

Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

Bob Dylan led me to this kind of music - and it's his and ours. And it's nobody else's.

No amount or combination of alternative fuels is going to allow us to continue running what we're running, the way we're running it.

Now I know what it is like to feel like a total idiot.

I’m very proud to say that Buddy MacMaster is my uncle. He gives credibility to what I do and I’m glad I can carry that MacMaster name because he has created such a good name.

Even if you know a character really well, there's no formula for what jokes will work and what won't.