If you push me far enough, all I really know is that he was a fine fisherman.""You know more than that, " my father said. "He was beautiful.

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.

Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.

Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries and seemingly even beyond the world.

You can love completely without complete understanding.

I tried to find something I already knew about life that might help me reach out and touch my brother and get him to look at me and himself.

unless you're the lead dog the view never changes...mercy out does justice every time:always find your way back home/

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.

Belief is the strongest power you can bring to bear in order to realise your dreams.

The past is the best way to suppose what may come.

We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?

Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick on himself, needs an ally. Mine has been tobacco.

An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be fit for the best society, and should keef out of it.

Some of my favorite scenes aren't in the movie. Because you, at some point, realize that your responsibility as director is purely to the story. It's not to your pleasure.

I often think it's comical How Nature always does contrive That every boy and every gal That's born into the world alive Is either a little Liberal Or else a little Conservative!

I would much rather not be the center of attention, and I'd much rather travel and be writing my novel, rather than standing on a stage and trying to get people to understand something.