I ran rather than walked, anxious to lose my way. All I wanted was to be unsure.

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.

We have come to love darkness of religion more than seeking for the knowledge of God.

You get a timeless cool card in New York.

My mother was a Sunday school teacher. So I am a byproduct of prayer. My mom just kept on praying for her son.

Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise.

This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy.

A God who is good knows no segregation amongst words or names. And were a God to deny his blessing to those who pursue a different path to eternity, there would be no human who should offer worship.

Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.

I never ask Candace Parker if she was thinking about leaving because I never had any reason to believe she would. I just kept the focus on the team and on Candace and the role she played for us.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

It takes more than some mind games, a couple of parlor tricks, to get under my skin.