What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.

What you hope for, you also fear.

The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used to think it came from her Native-American side. Whichever it was, she instinctively connected with nature, and taught me that. Church just could not hold my spirit.

Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

I grew up in the South [USA states] under segregation. I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. That's terrorism, too.

As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.