I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness.

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.

A noble minded person is not an implement.

As married people, we dwell on a spectrum between happy and unhappy, in love and out of love, and we move back and forth on that line decade by decade, year by year, week by week, even hour by hour.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room each believing himself in mortal peril from the other whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

There's just no place like Scotland when the sun is out. I just love coming home.

Don't worry about trying to do a perfect job. There is no perfect job. There is no one way of raising your children.

How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.

After all is said and done, its usually the wife who has said it and the husband who has done it.

The hope of all earnest souls must be realized.

There is only one object on earth that frightens me: a physicist working on a new trick.

A sad tale's best for winter. I have one of sprites and goblins.