Do you ever go off with a long grocery list and come home from the store with a bunch of different stuff? And somebody in the family unsacks the groceries and wants to know why you got this and didn't get that and just where is the whatever? And you want to say, 'Well, just be glad I came back, okay?' And the unpacker says, 'Well, next time bring what's on the list.'

All of these are names given me by other people, but not names I would have given myself. My name is not mine, it's theirs. It's a series of costumes put on my life by other people.

The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. The grass is greenest where it is watered.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.

It is the chair in honor of all those who, however competently, embrace the impossible. Sit in that chair someday.

The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature’s imperfect but tenacious survivors.

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.