And also, there are so many times when you need to make a quick escape, but humans don't have their own wings, or not yet, anyway, so what about a birdseed shirt?

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.

And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more ...

If you are looking for love, you may not find it, but if you love every one for sure, they will return it.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

In life, there are dreary, empty days and there are exciting, full days. You will experience both, for you cannot choose one above the other. May your full days be many.

Your burdens are perfectly measured and gifted to you according to your resistance.

There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue, Like to the wall that circles it about.

It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.

I'm not a perfectionist by a long shot, but self-doubt is a large part of my creative process.

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.

Nothing is secret once you tell anyone. If you want to keep it quiet - don't tell a soul.