Nature has a funny way of breaking what does not bend.

On my own I generally have very messy hair, wear jeans and sneakers.

Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.

I love playing big rooms. There's nothing like it. It's a power trip.

In the end only kindness matters.

I may not be able to pull on the smallest of holds, but those I can pull on I can pull on all day long.

Live your life with love and bravery and you shall lead a life uncommon.

I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you.

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

Reality is what you believe it to be. It's what you put your thought and energy into, because your hands physically manifest thought. So your world becomes what you feel and what you think.

I don't see the world unless I see it in ink.

To make a real independent film where the filmmaker is in charge creatively, one must sacrifice personal, financial, and physical well-being.

Men can be pitiless towards a woman whose body has eluded them, particularly if this is thanks to their own cowardice.

It is dangerous to use our own ability to access non-traumatic memories as a standard against which we judge a trauma victim’s response.

A photograph is a kind of time machine.

The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons strategems and spoils but his whole life is already a treason and a stratagem.

Normal people have nothing to forget.

There can be no such thing as "limited government," because there is no way to control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly of power.

So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end.

Love: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being.

Wisdom means to choose now what will make sense later.