I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.

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.

There is a force more powerful than steam and electricity: the will.

How was I supposed to know ‘lucked out’ means ‘I got screwed over’ in Australian?

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.

I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.

Nothing binds me to my Lord like a strong belief in His changeless love.

I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.

Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.

This is not a time to back away from the principles that this country was founded on.

I believe it was Today show fourth-hour host Kathie Lee Gifford who said, 'If drag queens love you, you'll have the longest career in the world. They know phony and they know real.'

As an actor, it's better to just be more loose and give yourself over. That's always fun. It's fun to just let go and be somebody else.