It takes life to live life

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.

What a mighty nation, we will be, if we encourage one another?

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

It is altogether doubtful whether any man can be saved who comes to Christ for His help with no intention to obey Him.

I always like to associate with a lot of priests because it makes me understand anti-clerical things so well.

Play is this process of operating the world, of manipulating things. It's related to experimentation, and it's related to pleasure, but not defined by it.

I love comic books. Since I was a kid, I've collected them.

It took me a long time to be as brave in my personal life as I was in my professional life to be brave in love means opening yourself up to the possibility of heartbreak.

Criticism per se does not worry me. I've always solicited it as part of the design process.

Men respect standards- get some!

And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.