"Excellence nourishes the soul."

“I'm God's messenger from the gypsy tent. And it's the message that's important, not the messenger.”

“A lot of the things that we think of as being racial differences are really class differences in America.”

“The notion that the maternal wish and the activity of mothering are instinctive or biologically predestined is baloney.”

“A lot of people, quite frankly, think intense attachments to animals are weird and suspect, the domain of people who can't quite handle attachments to humans.”

“Meditative prayer like that we experienced in the labyrinth resonates with hearts of emerging generations.”

“Silence was the cure, if only temporarily, silence and geography. But of what was I being cured? I do not know, have never known. I only know the cure. Silence, and no connections except to landscape.”

Source : Mary Cantwell (1995). “Manhattan, When I Was Young”, p.89, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“I've lost tremendous amounts of money in various markets and I think that that's something that makes you better at my job, not worse.”

“There are certain aspects of celebrity that I understand, although that's not the main point of the story [ in Assassination of Jesse James] , but it is one of the by products. I certainly understand what its like to be hunted and have a bounty on my head but at least nobody is pointing guns at me.”