The deeper question... is not whether ancient religious forms can reform... but whether new forms of nature-related spirituality might emerge.

To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.

... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.

We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.

The door to the soul is unlocked; you do not need to please the doorkeeper, the door in front of you is yours, intended for you, and the doorkeeper obeys when spoken to.

Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.

We make the path by walking.

It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve, I want to tie the two arms together, And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags.

Most ideas are born and lost in isolation.

When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street it couldn't be anywhere but Canada but how can I prove it?

Thomson sought the wilderness, never seeking to tame it, but only to draw from it, its magic of tangle and season.

If it sounds good to me and I hate my voice, so if I'm willing to listen to my voice over and over again, it's a hit. Guaranteed it'll be a hit.

Dress how you feel and love what you wear because at the end of the day you have got to wear and feel great in it.

Honestly, I'm not an extravagant person, I don't spend a lot of money.

Good ideas, like good pickles, are crisp, enduring, and devilishly hard to make.

Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.

I'll mix a lot of things. I'll wear a Temperley dress with flip flops, or I might be in head-to-toe Gucci and have on a ring that I got from a gumball machine for 50 cents.

I love acting so much that I have to have that as much as I have to have my time with my kid.