In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that.

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.

Failure is not an option. It just happens all the time. Like, all the time.

Light inside of us can overcome, withstand or overshadow any darkness outside of us

My diet is not unorthodox. I just eat like anyone else - that's just how I am. Everyone is different. It is just my metabolism that keeps me this slim.

Eat, sleep and drink music.

The greatest mark of a father is how he treats his children when no one is looking.

When I think of Canada I think of tonic water.

Otherwise, I spend a lot of time at my boyfriend's home in the country, in New Jersey.

Never floss a stranger.

We're all connected. Helping another woman is helping yourself, your mother, your sister, your children.

I didn't respond well to a firm hand and insults.