I believed him. I was not stupid. I was his wife.

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 wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother.

What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.

Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does.

The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks.

When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count.

If you are really great, you will let others discover this fact from your actions.

God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.

But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls.

Marx said that religion was the opiate of the people. In the United States today, opiates are the religion of the people.

If I could patent 'being real', I think I could own that.