For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.

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.

She'd been trained as a child no to trust anyone, but he'd just saved her life, and she was freezing. He could be a yeti for all she cared.

National Review's premise was that conformity was especially egregious among the intellectuals, that herd of independent minds.

Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we're a heavy rock band. We're definitely not a metal band, but we're a band that focuses on meaningful lyrics and melody.

My mom gives me an allowance. She keeps me pretty tight-reined.

If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear.

What is a woman? A woman is chaos. Chaos is the naturally perfect state of all things.

If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me.

Well, obviously I was excited by the idea that Woody Allen was going to direct it. But at the same time, the script itself and the character was really interesting.

I belong rather to a more classical tradition of social analysis.