I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting 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.

I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father, " she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think?

Most bad people are good people that don’t know how to think critically. These people become the blind weapons of a society.

We Live Must Have A Dream, But Doesn't Means Life Is Just A Dream.

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.

I'm a free person; I feel terribly free. They could put me in chains and I still would be free because my thoughts would be mine - and that's all I want to have.

The more there is, the less I want. The more man flies to the moon, the more I want to look at a tree.

Collectivism, as an intellectual power and a moral ideal, is dead. But freedom and individualism, and their political expression, capitalism, have not yet been discovered.

No amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat.

Identity for me is something that has to be played with and explored, and not become complacent about or uninterested in.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.