All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.

The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.

His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.

To feel alone is to be alone.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.

Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

We never get to love by hate, least of all by self-hatred.

I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre.

I was disappointed, but I kind of knew it was going to be an uphill struggle because of how strong the first season [of "True Detective"] was.

Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.

Nothing convinces persons of a weak understanding so effectually, as what they do not comprehend.

Mississippi State has two pretty looking quarterbacks.

We should begin at the very root from which we spring, we should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.