It was an epiphany when I realized you don't have to call yourself a linguist, a translator, a poet. You can call yourself an artist and you can do all these things.

The imagination is a spiritual apparatus. Unable to invent the world, it does the next best thing, and that is to assemble it piecemeal, ugly and strange, bright and clear, and dumbly discovered.

An artist may sustain a body of work as an ecosystem, in which every part is used to every advantage, not consuming any part without regenerating it.

In Banff, the mountains are really close to your head.

Naturally, patterns emerge through repetition, and repetition yields up a type of discovery that reveals everything about itself, especially its sorry limits.

What can be sustained and repeated without emptying out?

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

In a life that does not last forever create something that will last forever.

I wasn't one to go out and buy a new car and stereo system and expensive clothes. My mom helped keep me grounded.

I like architectural shapes. You can't put any shape on any body, except on the runway. In reality, it has to look and feel flattering.

Tragedy is a literary concept.

There is a certain androgyny to my appeal.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.

Credibility is someone else's idea of what I should be doing.

The streams with softest sound are flowing, The grass you almost hear it growing, You hear it now, if e'er you can.