I kept thinking how they were all names of dead people, and how names are basically the only thing dead people keep.

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 nobody changes the world, if nobody works to make it better, then we stagnate.

Fear of facing the grasp of death changes one's outlook on every little thing.

Formerly, people thought that if matter disappeared from the universe, space and time would remain. Relativity declares that space and time would disappear with matter.

Write relentlessly, until you find your voice. Then, use it.

All the women in the world want a phony rock star who plays guitar.

I get the urge for going/But I never seem to go.

Learn from both your mistakes and successes because if you learn only from your mistakes you will only learn more errors

No woman has ever stepped on Little America - and we have found it to be the most silent and peaceful place in the world.

You cannot compare me to somebody who makes apologies for Hitler. And I don't think Putin is comparable.

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.