It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.

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.

A humble learner of today becomes a strong leader of tomorrow.

When you believe from your heart & soul you can achieve any goal!

Violence?"Skulduggery said. "Violence is never the answer, until it's the only answer.

Yes, you are a battery.

The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face, it seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.

I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.

I say things that contradict each other, that are in real tension with each other, that compose me, that make me live, and that will make me die.

Women innately have this weird thing where they try to have a perfect persona - to look perfect, be perfect, act perfect, have their kids look a certain way. Women put so much pressure on themselves.

I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.

I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone.