"Art-making is an extension of the kind of spiritual process that shamans unfold in order to demonstrate the connectedness of the world beyond reality."

“Sleep is to a man what winding up is to a clock.”

“If reality TV has taught us anything, it's that you can't keep people with no shame down.”

“Maybe if you're younger you have more energy - but that's a big maybe. Because at this stage of life, I have more patience, understanding, wisdom, resources - and a husband. I didn't get him until I was 39. But I got a good one.”

“I like politics. I like traveling in the United States.”

“We're fighting three wars now. Imagine how many we'd be fighting if President Obama hadn't won the Nobel Peace Prize.”

“The tail of the comet slashed the dawn and in the red light of the rising sun, for a brief instant, it seemed as if the comet was bleeding across the sky.”

Source : Kathryn Lasky (2010). “Guardians of Ga'Hoole Collection: Legend of the Guardians”, p.323, Scholastic Inc.

“What is wrong with you people?”

“Coming eyeball to eyeball with a hummingbird on my terrace is as exciting to me as any celebrity Ive met as a result of Downton Abbey.”