This is a writer’s lesson: To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all.

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Keep passing the open windows.

Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

The most cruel and disobedient people will be saved, if there is one who would stand before God for His people

There is a deep light within my soul.

If you want something better for your life, you've got to start by believing you deserve it.

I think we get into all kinds of difficulty by saying photographs should be taken in a certain way which guarantees their veracity. I think that's a slippery slope to hell.

When you're young, you don't know what you don't know, so it's easier to get into that magical thing.

I pretty much only wear Lilly Pulitzer ties because my best friend owns the company.

I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that's in there.

I hate parties. I really don't like public events. I hate dressing up. I am the worst celebrity ever!

Trust one who has gone through it.

Day after day, throughout the winter, We hardened ourselves to live by bluest reason In a world of wind and frost.