I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.

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.

True knowledge of God is born out of obedience.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors.

So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!

Between killing and dying there's a third way: live

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

I am happy. I skated well. This is a competition and sometimes things don't go as you'd like them to.

Games have been called the lab for the development of moral attributes, but they will not, of themselves, accomplish this purpose. They must be properly conducted by competent individuals.

I was a liberated woman long before there was a name for it.

There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.