It took me as long as I had known him to get rid of all of his words. Like turning an hourglass over.

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.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?

Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.

Lord, why are you silent? Why are you always silent...?

I hate leaving home. I love what I do, but I'd love to go home every night.

All too infrequently do I encounter a new voice as delightful, compelling, and intelligent as that of Molly Tanzer.

The inspiration for my illusions comes from many places. Most often they come from my dreams, or an everyday occurrence in life.

The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.

If I died snowboarding, you could honestly tell everybody in the world that Jeremy London died happy.

What if I am, in some way, only a sophisticated fire that has acquired an ability to regulate its rate of combustion and to hoard its fuel in order to see and walk?