The only goal is the decency of means.

Like paths and alleys overgrown with hardy, rank-growing weeds, the words we use are overgrown with our individual, private, provincial associations, which tend to choke the meaning.

It was like someone far away calling someone else’s name.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

I'm not a folk-singer. I just sing a certain place.

Vulnerability is not about fear and grief and disappointment; it is the birthplace of everything we're hungry for.

It is a condition which confronts us-not a theory.

It must be hard to be a female in a David Mackenzie movie. I feel like women in his films are portrayed a certain way - like broken people.

Every beginning is cheerful.

He was used to being playful with women, teasing while keeping ultimate control. With Luna, he felt like a berserk marauder. He couldn't even spell control, much less utilize it.

I still think of Heaven as a liberal-arts school.

We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership