But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.

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 unfamiliarity of the subconscious mind can turn one into one's worst enemy of happiness and success.

Your dreams will take you where you belong.

Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.

Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.

One becomes gradually accustomed to a new realization of the nature of 'happiness': one has to assume happiness when Fate does not carry out all its threats simultaneously.

No family is perfect, and that's true. None of us are.

The reputation of power IS power.

I never wanted to be a playwright.