I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.

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.

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

A parent who cannot provide the basic needs of two children, must not even bear one.

Stubborness and staunch, they are both same thingsfrom different point of view, such crazy and eccentric.

The groves were God's first temples.

You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.

I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.

There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.

New York seemed as young as I was and infinitely hospitable.

Revolutions are not made with rosewater.

Every time thief steals, he steals from his own peace, from his own honour! No man is as poor as a rich thief!