But I dig Negroes. I dig them all the way.

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.

Keep a spur handy.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Choose your friends wisely, and also choose friends that you can trust.

Harmony can not thrive in a climate of mistrust, cheating, bullying; mean-spirited competition.

I used to be mouthy. It was all to do with being a northerner and from Manchester, which was suddenly a big deal when I was in my 20s. When I read some of the interviews I did back then, I cringe.

No man knows my history.

Listen before you draw your battle lines, lest you alienate your allies.

Life is in color, but black and white is more realistic.

Too much virtue has a corrupting effect.