Shall we gather at the river, Where bright angel feet have trod; With its crystal tide for ever, Flowing by the throne of God?
The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.
The long morning shadows lay as still and dark as lakes and patterned the rough ground with straight margins.
All places, no matter where, no matter what, are worth visiting.
Home is always the impossible subject, multilayered and maddening.
Basically, what you find out is the limits of your patience and your strength and your capacity to adapt. You find that out in travel and being alone and being tested. So that's a great thing.
Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
Seeking the invisible through the imagery of the visible, the Americans never can get quite all the way to the end of the American dream.
Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy; we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports and dances in the sarcophagus, but thought is diverted from the bier by works that tell of immortality, even from the altar of death.
I am a serious artist in my own right, in the sense that I've spent my entire life being an artist and trying to be an artist and making work.