If god exists, he is not to be believed in.

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.

Your heart has all the feelings, all the perception, and all the love that the universe ever had.

I had always thought that sorrow was the most exhausting of the emotions. Now I knew that it was anger.

Strange that, the way happiness only works in retrospect.

Making up for lost time?""Yes, " I say. "A lot of things were stolen from my childhood. Lots of important things. And now I have to get them back." "In order to keep on living."I

This week I've travelled more than 15,000 miles from America to China to Burma to Australia. I have no idea what time it is right now.

There's always some kind of hidden logic.

My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually call the first child by the initials.

I don't like the way most people dress on the golf course. I think it's pretty bland, pretty boring.

The sensation of falling into the past is not unlike that of coming home for the holidays.

Although all of us desire happiness, few of us reach that goal because of the seemingly endless cycle of expectation and disappointment.