He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.

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.

While I was not entirely satisfied with the circumstances of my existence, I felt like the possibility of improvement still existed. That I could make happiness happen.

But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.

An idea upon which attention is peculiarly concentrated is an idea which tends to realize itself.

Nail me to my car and I'll tell you who you are

My friends, if we are going to do a great work for God, we must spend much time in prayer; we have got to be closeted with God.

A boy's will is the wind's will, and the thought's of youth are long, long thoughhts

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

Do not be ungrateful to animals.

Those huckleberries in the National League don't want to do anything that the American League wants to do.

I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.