I have no hostility towards men. Some of my best friends are men. I married a man, and my father was a man.

Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

We need to fashion policies with proper incentives to reduce the amount of carbon we are putting in the atmosphere.

Why argue about things you can't prove?

It's relatively easy to generate a lot of enthusiasm for Puget Sound in the short term. Sustaining the effort to clean it up is somewhat tougher.

The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.

No one should have to dance backward all of their lives.

It occurred to me when I was thirteen and wearing white gloves and Mary Janes and going to dancing school, that no one should have to dance backward all their lives.

The natural consequence of being connected to the depth, what I call the soul, or your essence, is the attribute of joy.

A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all.

I'd be a dope to compare my writing with Wallace Stegner's, but that book probably influenced me in ways I didn't even realize while I was writing The Night Journal.

Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

I am always surprised when people do get upset. Perhaps its just the nutty people who write to newspapers who get upset.

As an actor, throughout three years, I've become more comfortable within my own skin and confident.

I always thought of my career as a body of work and not just about numbers.

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.