I don't mind if smiles come at my expense, I'm a small price to pay.

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 all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

The paradox is the result of two opposing truths existing side by side, which can be both right.

See the mice in their million hordes From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads.

The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.

I'm 24 years old and yeah, I'm a different person and I'm definitely more mature, but these are the tops that I'm going to keep on wearing.

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

There are as many atoms in each molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. This is true for dogs, and bears, and every living thing. We are, each of us, a little universe.

Once you get the government involved in agriculture you'll have nothing but problems and expenses.

One should not hurt others even by words. One must not speak an unpleasant truth unnecessarily.

You will have to look a long way before you find a bunch of scum-suckers more greedy, humourless and deserving of death than the suits in the music business.