Resurrection does not come without crucifixion, and you cannot celebrate Easter without living Good Friday.

Pain too much to handle also comes with exquisite beauty, as common as dirt, as unexpected as grace.

There was healing in the tyranny, and tyranny in the healing.

In this waiting, there is witness.

The line between the living and the dead may not be much of a line at all, but the terrain is not for the weak of heart.

Honoring a life is honoring the wide open space of wilderness and unknowing where the sacred dwells.

Are we meant to be pilgrims of the depths?

What is known might sometimes sustain us, but what is unknown will save us.

Grief would weave itself among the threads of love and life and hope, and I was starting to believe that what came of it all would still one day be beautiful.

Tracks were adumbrations of the energy of life all about us, the recent history book of wilderness.

When I reach for my pen, nothing is out of reach.

Storm will never take you in consideration whether you take the storm in consideration or not!

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

I did my homework, of course, by inhaling as much literature as was available to find, so that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].

My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night.

No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.

History must not be written with bias, and both sides must be given, even if there is only one side.

And I'm not even just talking artists, every single person in this nation has the right to be themselves, live life go team go. I love you Canada, thank you so much.

I think that when people experience something that seems to be supernatural, in some ways it cuts through the secular mindset.

However difficult it may be to accept what happens to us, one must understand that moments such as this give us the possibility for radical change in our behavior.