I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster's paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.

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.

In some remote regions of Islam it is said a woman caught unveiled by a stranger will raise her skirt to cover her face.

As you behave towards others, expect that others will behave to you.

As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

I think love is a great catalyst for many characters to further the story or their own growth.

When I write, I'm writing as a fan, and trying to come up with songs that I would want to listen to.

The one thing that I realize - well, not the one thing, but it was a big thing - having in my head that I need to get healthier. It's been a very gradual process for me.

Learning to drive is a scary thing for a parent. I had to basically lie to get the keys when I was a kid.

The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person, painting has itself as it's purpose, which is quite enough.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to a select few.