Flowers heal me. Tulips make me happy. I keep myself surrounded by them as soon as they start coming to the island from Canada, and after that when they come from the fields in La Connor, not far from where I live.

I believe that we are given strength and help from a power much larger than ourselves. I believe if I humble myself that this power will come through me, and help me create work that is bigger than I would have ever been able to have done alone.

I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch.

You know how some people, when they're together, they somehow make you feel more hopeful? Make you feel like the world is not the insane place it really is?

we have to suffer mosquitoes the size of blackbirds.

I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.

It's life. You don't figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.