I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.

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.

So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!

Our leaders are acting like lemmings.

I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's. His hair was perfect.

I always start with reality, in anything I do, everything I do, I always start from something real.

Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.

All art is holy. Not that it is all long-faced and miserable; it can be wild and wooly. But if it transforms you, it is art. And it is holy.

Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.

The minute you try to threaten and use boycotts I think it is outside the democratic perception.

What is true, is true only for one time and only for one place.

One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success; 't is the result of all the others; 't is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.