It is my great hope that our paths, however long and winding, will cross again.

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.

Grief ends up giving you the two best things: softness and illumination.

There must be fired affections before our prayers will go up.

The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

It's not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elements to the picnic, you know.

I think [teacher] is the noblest profession.

It takes strength to show vulnerability.

A sustainable business is resource efficient, respects the environment and is a good neighbour

Sport is something that does not matter, but is performed as if it did. In that contradiction lies its beauty

To go to San Diego is everything. It's literally everything. It's the ultimate dream. It's the big one.