That's the thing about parents, I'm beginning to realize. You don't have to see them all that much to imitate them.

Resisting and avoiding pain sucks energy-and time. The more you let yourself feel those minute-and-a-half hells, the quicker you'll start feeling those minute-and-a-half happinesses.

The most reliable path to glory is base brute effort.

If you need somebody to dig up rocks eight hours a day underwater, call me.

There are still things out there in the universe to contemplate and spend our lives chasing.

I've managed to create intimacy with people I know, and people that I don't know. The longer things stay inside of us, the more we think they are black or tainted, but they're really not.

If you want to write in a mature and interesting way, you have to have sympathy for everyone that's involved.

You see things really different when your father is so intimately, so indisputably in charge of your continued existence on the planet.

When I was growing up, there were no cell phones and no roads into the bush, and so if something happened to your plane, that was serious. Nobody was coming to rescue you.

There's a kind of intimacy that happens between a mother and an only child. Which only gets more intimate when it's between a mother and only daughter.

I'm pretty much of the Shakespearean school. Dialogue is character. How we speak is who we are.

I do love you, but I can no longer wait for you to figure out how to love me in a way that makes us both feel good.

Depression, I've learned, is sometimes caused by anger that we keep locked up inside.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the aeroplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

I don't really have a career plan.

Don't spin your wheels and stress. Take a deep breath, center yourself and make a plan.

If you never take a chance, you will never be defeated - but you will never accomplish anything either.

The ugliest woman you'll ever meet, but she's mine and she's ugly.

This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.

Have you considered that if you don't make waves, nobody including yourself will know that you are alive?

Sin will usher in the greatest and the saddest losses that can be upon our souls.