...a butterfly is like the soul of a person, it dries out in captivity.

Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift.

Marriage is holy and it's private.

In a state of pseudo-death you restore your substance.

Nature is subtle and complex.

..we all have to do things in this life that we don't like..

First smile!! An unseasonal little shower of rain fell here, and a lot of butterflies drowned, so we put them in the sun and they came back to life, and flew up and then Agaat SMILED!

Well, I am something, Ma, you hissed, I am not nothing, I am somebody and I know what I want from life and I know what to do to get it. I will provide for myself.

The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. Thought finds its way into action.

I love color - I'm not a beige kind of girl

This is the hard part about having best friends that I feel no attachment to -- I don't give them any benefit of the doubt. And being best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt.

It would be very sad if children had no memories before those of school. What they need most is the love and attention of their mother.

Life is slippery. Here, take my hand.

I'm often prone to self-doubt about everything I do.

We are trying to evoke and reinforce meanings from the spaces we cover and the times we're given. Short or long this becomes our purpose. What we artists do is important stuff.

Spies are a most important element in water, because on them depends an army's ability to move.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.

The big issue was cutting. I finally cut as much as I could, about a fourth of the story, and actually liked it.