I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all.

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.

Ever day you spend at work is a foundation for your future.

Where we are going is touching the invisible, invisible becoming visible...

We cleared all traces of our occupation out of M6 and moved to M7, and it's been quite smooth over there. We chose a place all the way at the end of an industrial park.

Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way I am achieving my dreams.

If a man doesn't find ease in himself, 'tis in vain to seek it elsewhere.

I love all kinds of different music.

My experience has to be funnelled through a black experience or a white experience, or it doesn't exist, because that's how we're going to deal with the world.

Through the portals of silence the healing sun of wisdom and peace will shine upon you.

The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.

What we focus on determines how we feel. And how we feel - our state of mind - powerfully influences our actions and interactions.