Do you have any coffee?'...'It stunts my growth, and I'm afraid of death.

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.

One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little

Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being.

The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers?

Everyone is in the business of customer satisfaction.Wh o are your customers and how are they doing?

Being black or white isn't an accomplishment. What you do with your life - or what you accomplish with your life - dictates what you should be proud of.

I understand why people do vote on the conservative side of the ticket because people have a tendency to go for strong governments when really, from an idealistic point of view, it's a bad thing.

I still am a geek, I don't think there's anything wrong with it. I see no shame in having an unhealthy obsession with something.

Oh, are you from Wales? Do you know a fella named Jonah-He used to live in whales for a while

Whoever first thought of imposing a library fine was indeed intelligent.

It's great meeting children because you never know what they will say.