There is only ever one answer to the question what did you do with your life, and it's the same--fleeting and unknowable--for every one of us. I lived.

What thrills me about trains is not their size or their equipment but the fact that they are moving, that they embody a connection between unseen places.

I was a very, very old child. Sometimes you meet a child who seems more like an adult. I think I was that type of child because I had a nearly fatal kidney disease when I was 9 years old.

You think you know someone by looking at his face but what can one face say about the thousand thoughts behind those eyes.

I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.

I think what you can’t see is always what you should be frightened of.

I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.

Asking anyone what she or he is reading is a necessary part of conversation, exchanging news. So I take recommendations from friends - and I always pass along a book I've loved.

...to make art is to realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel sad with and for a stranger.

I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car.

Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.

Knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world...

Because otherwise you would have to let them in, let them change your life, and it’s scary and unpredictable and unsafe – at least, that’s what we all think.

Each character is a completely whole person with their problems and many sides to their personality. It's so rich with details as well, like the set.

A real important thing is that, though I rely on my husband for love, I rely on myself for strength.

Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown

Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives.

The real thing is that sweet joy you feel when you're in the midst of it.

My biggest prediction for the future is that people are going to start looking after individual investors.

Forcing yourself to think happy lies doesn't heal your dreams. Getting to the truth does.

I have been out of drama school for 13 years, so there are 13 years worth of graduates behind me.