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.

It took me as long as I had known him to get rid of all of his words. Like turning an hourglass over.

There is a science to living well and art to experiencing the good life, and it begins with wisdom.

When you hear love calling you, don’t pretend to be deaf.

I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun.

For our improvement we need a mirror.

I decided I was going to be in love. I was going to give it everything I had. It was like heaven on that ranch. I don't know why we broke up. We never fought.

I give thee all,-I can no more, Though poor the off'ring be; My heart and lute are all the store That I can bring to thee.

It's the American way: if you don't vote, you don't get to whine.

Power resides where men believe it to reside.

I have two questions for you: What do you need to make your creativity shine through? Why do you keep ignoring it?

My family are not sporty - they are all doctors or lawyers.