I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember

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.

Do for the others more than you do for yourself

Ten percent tithes is unbiblical

Those who call the shots are never in the line of fire.

If people get together, so eventually will nations.

The man who seeks to please God is the man who people are pleased with. The man who seeks to please others won't satisfy anyone.

Nobody gives a crap if we're great musicians.

I'm very reactive, I think. I'm down to throw down with people. Online, of course. Not in person.

It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.

Without peanut butter, I might starve.

I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know.