The rocks are not so close akin to us as the soil; they are one more remove from us; but they lie back of all, and are the final source of all. ... Time, geologic time, looks out at us from the rocks as from no other objects in the landscape.

When I look up into the starry heavens at night and reflect upon what it is I really see there, I am constrained to say, ´there is no god´.

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.

Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.

Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.

A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.

Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp.