Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, and identity.

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.

I have everything I had twenty years ago only it's all a little bit lower.

In politics, guts is all.

There are so many directors that I want to work with, but I can't tell you that there's one role. If I knew it, I would write it for myself.

We believe, first and foremost, what makes us feel that we are fine fellows.

Almost all the people who lived in Atlantis meditated and had powerful psychic skills.

The beginning of the decline of the Republic was the day they air-conditioned the Capitol.

The Entity who brought the universe into existence must be a Personal Being, for only a person can design with anywhere near this degree of precision.

I don't care anymore if people dress like me, now I want them to think like me.

Oh each successive night that comes has something in it of an abandoned ember that is slowly burning out, and it falls swathed in ruins, surrounded by funereal objects.