I didn't feel empty. I wished I'd felt empty. ... I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.

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.

If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?

The problem with battling yourself is that even if you win, you lose.

The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.

You need to decide what problems, what opportunities, what projects you're going to work on.

They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. It's the same way with women... or at least the ones I want to be with.

Real teams are much more likely to flourish if leaders aim their sights on performance results that balance the needs of customers, employees, and shareholders.

So many wonderful books to write, and not enough hours in the day. An embarrassment of riches.

They misspelled 'party.' How evil genius can they be?

The band is like a vintage car. You take it out to go for a spin for a couple miles, but you wouldn't drive across the country.