Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops.

You can't keep a cool head when you're drowning in love. You just trash around a lot and scream, and wear yourself out.

I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.

You might 'write from the heart,' but you'd better polish with your brain.

Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.

I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.

Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water.