It's a good rule of thumb, it seems to me: if you're not allowed to see where something comes from, don't put it in your mouth.

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.

Two to three hours of studying a night, Is good medicine for the soul, I have tried this remedy, It never grows old

A loveless world is a dead world.

There would be no bohemia without smoking.

My mother was a star-struck girl from a little town in Arkansas who had gone to finishing school in New York, and whose mother had given her anything she ever wanted.

The longer the battle lasts the more force we'll have to use!

I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.

I'm a very, very proud Canadian, and having the privilege to represent my country on the international level was the highlight of my 18-year career.

Few artists are able to accurately assess just how valuable and great their work is - or how much it will be appreciated by its audience. In other words, insecurity is the name of the game.

The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.