I wanted to hit him. I wanted to hold him. I wanted to shout myself into his ear.

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.

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.

Millions of people that are registered to vote that shouldn't be registered to vote. Look, if nothing else, people are going to be watching on November 8th.

The wage-earning class the world over are the victims of society.

When one door closes, fortune will usually open another.

Taken as a story of human achievement, and human blindness, the discoveries in the sciences are among the great epics.

American families be warned, if the White House doesn't send your jobs overseas, they'll send your kids.

You can't be a legend in your parent's basement.

I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

Allow everything else to vanish Save and except your cherished dreams, For your cherished dreams Are treasured sleeplessly By God Himself.