It seems entirely possible to me that horrible things can be going on without us becoming horrible people.

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.

I hate the day, because it lendeth lightTo see all things, but not my love to see.

Question: Where do I go from here?Answer: Out of your comfort zone. In the direction of your dreams.

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.

The Germans would appear as the disturbers of peace, as they already do to some people, merely because they were the first to take the path along which all the others were ultimately to follow.

Life is really a blessing to be able to do what you love everyday, to learn about yourself. For me it's been about becoming a woman, and I've really enjoyed that experience.

Discord need not be an impediment. Differences can bring strength.

To understand and be understood, those are among life's greatest gifts, and every interaction is an opportunity to exchange them

I'll keep peace at all cost, even if I choke to death on my tongue.

What I admire most in men - To sit opposite a mirror at dinner and not look in it

No man shall rule over me with my consent. I will rule over no man.