“It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up.”

“As much as I try to make the past keep still and mind its manners, it moves and murmurs with me through every day.”

“I have never got a grip on when the past begins or where it ends, but if cities map the past with statues made from bronze forever frozen in one dignified position, as much as I try to make the past keep still and mind its manners, it moves and murmurs with me through every day.”

“After all, moms were appreciated only on Mother's Day. That's why they invented it. So they could treat you like a household appliance the rest of the year.”

“In passion we trust, for passion finds infinity and says that is how many ways I can exist.”

“We don't know what we don't know.”

“The stunted pines elude capturein a thousand sidetracked increments.The wind will never understand them.Like us it is forced to go on.”