Chickens can do many things, but they cannot make sophisticated deals with humans.

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.

Everything that has ever been beautiful has been burned. Like you.

A CD. How quaint. We have these in museums.

A Chinese Christian prayed every day .... "Lord reform Thy world beginning with me."

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.

A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent.

The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.

Between Russia and the United States sentiments of good will continue to be mutually cherished.

I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.

Tempus fugit (time flies).

Things like that become a blur - shot at some soundstage, somewhere - that's as much as I can remember.