Then I remembered how she was - fiery, ruthless, smart, and despite herself very caring, not a person who hurts anyone.

She was at the same table near the back where three nights ago I'd sat entranced by her songs. And where the two of us had talked like old friends.

We sat bathed in luscious darkness, Casco Bay's thousand islands spread out before us like a diamond quilt. 'I don't get enough of this, ' she said.

Wind blew snow crystals back and forth between the graves. The ancient pines creaked overhead.

There is no smarter professor than life, and no wiser sage than experience.

Atlas said, 'Must my future be so heavy?' Hera said, 'That is your present, Atlas. Your future hardens every day, but it is not fixed.' 'How can I escape my fate?' 'You must choose your destiny.

He could still escape—the fear was in front of him, and all he had to do was wrench free and run in the other direction. But he kept walking forward, straight into its embrace.

I've been singing all my life. I've always wanted this. I sang in church, in school plays, and my parents gave me vocal lessons. My parents always said this was destined for me.

When you know clearly what you want, you'll wake up every morning excited about life.

Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas

The body distracts your soul.

Any film I've made, I've only really begun to understand in the cutting room. That's when the story shows itself to you, like a wreck coming out of the sea.

Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.

I wasn't a naturally confident, extravert, outgoing person.