I would have fallen in love with you anywhere.

She thought of how much people changed you. It was the opposite of what you always heard, that no one could change a person. It wasn't true. It was only through other people that one ever did change.

There is no good reason. Don't waste your life waiting for good reasons...You'll wait and wait.

There are aspects of love that I once undervalued. Kindness. Having a sort of honor when love is on the table.

Desire suppressed finds its way into other more surreal settings, into dreams.

Between children and parents there is a difficulty of seeing each other simply as people.

Off the packed trail we experience the miracle of corn snow, skiing atop the crust, like skiing on an eggshell that has been sprinkled with sugar.

Recording a scene with paint rather than film sinks you more deeply into your surroundings. You have to look a little harder and a little longer. And you end up with a memento.

A struggle, to the person experiencing it, is a struggle.

I first travelled to Africa at the end of 1996 and was immediately captivated. I had planned on a three-week trip, and I ended up staying two months.

Change and renewal are themes in life, arent they? We keep growing throughout life.

Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

The only way to see God is to notice and observe people

Faith is the result of the act of the will following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.

No one really understands the grief or joy of another.

We just want to make the walls cave in and the ceiling collapse. Music is meant to be played as loudly as possible, really raw and punchy, and I'll punch out anyone who doesn't like it the way I do.

When I took up running, it was like meeting God himself. I have been running ever since.

Scholarship can find little to say about the obvious.

I ain't no perfect man I'm tryna do the best that I can with what it is I have.

A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.