It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.

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.

That's the mistake people make - always searching for the perfect match, when they would be just as happy if they settled for somebody reasonably good.

When you do something different, you are either blessed or cursed!

Brands and customers alike, do evolve

Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.

You're not so bad. You'll get there. You should have seen Alec do flips at first. I think he kicked himself in the head once.

You get closer to your own humanity by understanding the stories of other people and the struggles they have.

I love the feeling of being on the hunt - the feeling that the story is refusing to be solved in some lesser way and is insisting that you see it on its highest terms.

I think anybody has, regardless of your gender, we all have equal value if you have value to bring and value to provide, you just have to be willing to use your voice.

Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due to His name, and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort. The most praying souls are the most assured souls.

No. I don't have the patience, and I'm not very tactful. People say I can be frightening.