As long as I am thinking, I am alive.

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.

An Indian’s wealth   Is determined by what they lose And not by what they save.

School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?

I wanted to finally feel better about understanding. I painted my wife because I wanted to understand her. I can talk to her, but I didn't understand why I was so compelled.

I'm a big believer in always challenging yourself and learning new skills.

[Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself.

The trick [in comedy] is always to figure out how real you're playing it and how real it's supposed to feel. That's a hard thing to figure out.

Men are kids at heart. They want to be nourished and pet like a dog.

Falling on your face, at the very least, is a forward movement.

Do not try to convert others to your point of view, except by holding it and living accordingly.