I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context.

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.

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.

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

I will never turn to God.

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.

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.