I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.

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.

Someone who was just nice didn't remain on your mind an hour after they'd left.

I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

Faith itself is an act of human willing enabled and disciplined by grace.

There is no scandal like rags nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

I'm inspired by anything. Not even just art, just anything that's real and vulnerable.

You know, there are easier ways to meet a guy than to run him over.

For self is the lord of self, self is the refuge of self; therefore curb thyself as the merchant curbs a good horse.

It's never fun to do it by yourself. It's good to have other people that are on the same path as you. It's nice to have that in common and be able to converse with them. It's cool to share that.

It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.

All reluctance is a lack of confidence.