I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important 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.

Nerd life is just so much better than regular life.

People want to do something to make the world a better place. They will help when they are invited to.

The gospel messages you share will be accepted more readily if your Christlike example is evident in the ongoing pattern of your posts.

If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own.

A short-order cook, just off work, makes easy tracking for lions and worse

The Wall will stand for a hundred years.

In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods.

I think if you need to use a gun you're doing a lousy job as a detective.

Hey, I always say: if you want a quiet life, become a monk.

In my more pompous moments I like to think of myself as a writer rather than a humorist, but I suppose that's merely the vanity of advancing age.