There are no grounds for supposing that one can live a life without pain and sadness, but is it wrong to believe that somehow, somewhere, this is possible?

Goodness often blossoms like roses on very rickety trellis-work, and beauty can grow out of nonsense.

Where life is fully and consciously lived in our own neighborhood, we are cushioned a little from the impact of great far-off events which should be of only marginal concern to us.

When you choose to let go, you discover more about who you are and what you want out of life, and then you go for it!

The best carpenters make the fewest chips.

The defining aspects of westerns are still pretty much in place - namely landscape and conflict. In other books the conflict can be internal, but in westerns it usually plays out on a big stage.

Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.

Art is the signature of man.

I'm excited about what I have to offer. Not only a little bit of youth, but a different perspective as a woman.

What is truth? I think stating a truth could be dangerous, because we are locking something in and therefore making it harder for ourselves to change beyond that certain thought or concept.

I like photographs of anything uninteresting. Maybe just two doors on a wall... The point is to be uninteresting.

When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it's just one damn thing after another.

In baseball, you don't know nothing.