You speak your mind, don't you...? A rare find in a woman.

What thrills me about trains is not their size or their equipment but the fact that they are moving, that they embody a connection between unseen places.

I was a very, very old child. Sometimes you meet a child who seems more like an adult. I think I was that type of child because I had a nearly fatal kidney disease when I was 9 years old.

You think you know someone by looking at his face but what can one face say about the thousand thoughts behind those eyes.

I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.

I think what you can’t see is always what you should be frightened of.

I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.

Asking anyone what she or he is reading is a necessary part of conversation, exchanging news. So I take recommendations from friends - and I always pass along a book I've loved.

...to make art is to realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel sad with and for a stranger.

I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car.

Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.

Progress is the only road going there.

Better overcautious than missing a jugular vein, as the saying goes."That was a very morbid saying. Maybe only vampire said it.

You have no idea how cute you look with all those snowflakes in your hair, ” he murmured.“And you look cute with hypothermia. I hope to God you can get a real coat while you’re here.

Skibbereen have a hard time at [math]; the best that the smartest of them can do with adding two plus two is guessing: three plus one. Correct, sort of, but not always useful.

Always accepting the greatest joy of all is the time that I get to spend with my wife.

Clothes are part of the character. They can't but help inform who you are.

It's important to keep trying to do what you think is right no matter how hard it is or how often you fail. Never stop trying

My parents are very conservative. They taught me the value of hard work - dont depend on other people, do it yourself.

It's very important to be just to other people. It takes years and years of living to learn that injustice against oneself is always unimportant.

With technology, there is so much isolation with people now, that there are very few places where you can connect.