I live in one of the best places, bar none, to appreciate the wild natural environment. I also live in one of the most politically difficult places to work on its behalf: Alaska.

If God charged us for every tear He shed for us, the world would be bankrupt.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

Many sheep but one Shepherd.

The greatest gift is the passion for reading.It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.It is a moral illumination.

There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.

I do like touring but my life sort of starts to fall apart under it after a certain point. So you just have to stop. And it's hard to.

Money has a way of trumping even the gravest of enemies over time.

You can go out and try to do the best work that you can do within the context of what that is, but it's really gotta be about the work and what you're focusing on.

Rebelliousness really is the province of young people-that kind of iconoclasm.

The big influence on me was Robert Altman, who, especially in 'Nashville,' transformed my sense of dramatic structure and showed how you could handle overlapping stories.