Grandfather informs me that is not possible.

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.

That's what's wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don't even tell you how they feel.

Democracy is more vindictive than cabinets, the wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings.

When we all become more compassionate, there will probably be less suffering in the world.

Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.

I think it would be a great improvement if there were no D&O insurance . The counter-argument is that no-one with any money would serve on a board. But I think net net you'd be better off.

The morning’s recollection of the emptiness of the day before. Its anticipation of the emptiness of the day to come.

I always want to make people dance so there'll always be an element of dance in my music.

That sounds really simplistic, but if I'm in an enclosed space, or my apartment, and I live very close to a park - there's something about being outside and being near things that are green.

I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated.

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.