I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God.

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.

Love is the power of being.

If I can’t picture it, I can’t understand it.

Until the day of his death no man can be sure of his courage.

I still want to play music but I don't want to look like Donald Duck while I'm doing it.

Strong relationships are not rocked by a truth that is grounded by resolute monogamy.

That's one of my greatest strengths. I'm a Scorpio rising - we're very decisive. I'm very good at cutting things off that don't feel right.

I REPRESENT THE INDIVIDUAL. I REPRESENT BEING HAPPY WITH WHO YOU ARE

Never change for the mainstream—stay in your lane, and if you’re talented and resilient enough the mainstream will come to you.

Don't make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you're not even conscious you're making.

There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don't have the means.