Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.

Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography.

Animals don't have anyone to protect them. If we don't stand up, the people who are harming animals will never get stopped.

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire

her eyes are unfathomable to me, hostile, even, as if she had removed herself to a place where I cannot reach her - somewhere I cannot know.

I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold.

I'm not romanticizing black people, because we've got gangsters like everybody else.

Corporations have nothing to do with values, and they know it, and sometimes say it.

It's funny because the most sane women I've ever met are my mom and my grandmothers. I think you have to be incredibly sane and self-aware to function in relatively insane environments.

If you haven't noticed so far, I think sleep is really important.

The admiral needs only one science, that of navigation. The general needs all the sciences.

The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin.

I spent my life working before I started band. I worked construction, landscaping. I worked in kitchens, cleaned dishes. I worked demolition.