We were familiar with the line that separates grief from madness, and we know that sometimes the only way to stay on the right side of it is to scream.

That's the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can't share it.

With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed as on the first day of creation. Nobody owned them.

They were probably scared of him and so they did what boys do around any object of fear: they went up close, pointed a finger, gave it a nickname, and masked their terror with roaring laughter.

They all lived so steeped in fear that the losses they had yet to suffer had already consumed them.

There was plenty for the eye to feast on, but nothing for the soul. He had a hunger for something that no sky could satisfy. Somewhere on the planet there had to be a different kind of light.

Nature was neither fair nor unfair. Those terms belonged to the world of men.

Your roots aren't to be found in your childhood so much as in your child. It's he who provides your link to the world, and home is wherever he is.

Loss was a night that never ended.

Her grief was a burden so heavy, he came close to collapsing under it, and yet he couldn't lay it down.

Is there anything more heartbreaking than drowning in sight of land? Is there a single one of us who hasn't at least once felt haunted by the fear of slipping away within sight of a safe haven?

The strength required for the vision of the most powerful reality is not only compatible with the most powerful strength for action, for monstrous action, for crime - it even presupposes it.

Your personal boundaries protect the inner core of your identity and your right to choices.

Every once in a while in an actor's life, a cast comes together.

God put laws into being - we put them into motion.

If you are a conscious human being who has opinions about the world, then you will unconsciously put your own perspective into the book.

I'd much rather do one or two takes of one thing and then see how it goes.

This country provides opportunities. If you don't take advantage of them, it's your own fault.

While Dawn worked two jobs to meet ends, her son was busy cutting school and hanging with his friends.

You want everything to go right. You've just got to let yourself be free and have good energy.