A lot of people want to see this idealized version of heroism, all pretty and perfect, and I'm not interested in playing the goody-goody hero at all.

Cars are part of our genetic makeup. It's unavoidable.

Our self-expression is meant to be a manifestation of the silence of our hearts.

I'll put it to you this way: I never, ever think about the things that I get involved with on a macro means-to-an-ends scale.

Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace.

I didn't learn to swim until I was 21 or something because I grew up in the mountains in Wyoming and all the water is glacier runoff and cold.

Facing the darkness, admitting the pain, allowing the pain to be pain, is never easy. This is why courage - big-heartedness - is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey. But if we fail to let pain be pain - and our entire patriarchal culture refuses to let this happen - then pain will haunt us in nightmarish ways. We will become pain's victims instead of the healers we might become.