Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do… I am not a hero, it is true… But I am not a bad person, either.

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.

Psychology is a soft weapon but you can take outmore enemy battalions with leaflets and radio broadcasts than with high explosives.

1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me

Happiness is a solid and joy is a liquid.

It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.

She had been born for this man, and she had spent so many years trying to accept the fact that he had been born for someone else.

What you stand for is more important than what you stand in.

I always lift weights very heavy and spend a lot of time in the weight room.

Goods are displayed by thousands of shopkeepers with a sense of beauty that finds no other outlet.

The tough thing about adulthood is it starts before you even know it starts.

Meditation helps everything.