In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that night, like the turtle that everything else in the universe was on top of.

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.

The news can be poison to your soul, don't let it kill your joy, be compassionate but not consumed. Be empathetic not enraged.

I have taken to living by my wits.

Somebody asked what I wanted on my gravestone. I'm just going to put: 'Glad I Could Help.'

I need to fall in love with someone. Sorry - I mean fall in love with something. I need to wake myself up.

I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day.

What I love best in life is new starts.

And wrinkles, the damned democrats, won't flatter.

Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.

I think empathy is really important for pleasure.