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I grew up thinking of snow as a luxury you visit.

We need to drive like hell and get to the hills before the winter sets in.

I grew up in Chicago, and there was always snow. In Los Angeles there never was, so we would always import snow!

I think snow is so evocative and has such a powerful atmosphere.

I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts. I really did have to walk home six miles through the snow, like your grandparents used to complain.

Snow isn't just pretty. It also cleanses our world and our senses, not just of the soot and grime of a Fife mining town but also of a kind of weary familiarity, a taken-for-granted quality to which our eyes are all too susceptible.

This would not be a problem if I were driving a snowplow.

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

The winter's a little bit daunting in Montana.

I travel a lot and rarely make it home to Seattle.