But I still couldn't figure out what it all meant. The more I found out, the less I understood.

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.

The human tendency toward confirmatory thinking - all of us are bias to seek information that fits what we already believe.

You can't fool Mother Nature, and you can't fool market forces (at least not for long)

. . . there was a softness to Cash’s gaze that made her want to lean into it. It felt like being stroked with a paintbrush, all the way down her body, leaving everything tingling in its wake.

My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, or things I've lost, or things I'll never have.

Let the rain falling on your face run into your eyes. Can you see the rainbow now through the stormy skies?

It is increasingly clear that the fate of the universe will come to depend more and more on individuals as the bungling of bureaucracy permeates every corner of our existence.

Healthful whole foods improve our brain function as well.

If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst.

What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.

I can assure you that I have never used my media companies for propaganda, and I will never do so.