Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

You always put things at risk. If you fell out of a tree as a child, I'd clean you up and bandage your knees, and next I looked you'd be out climbing again. You never learned your lesson."

Oh, she'd learned her lesson. Climb harder.

There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.

My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured the essential dreaminess of his nature

It really has quite an important effect on people.

We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists.