My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.

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.

If a problem can be solved, there is nothing to worry about. If it can't be solved, well you can always buy chocolate :)

True strength isn’t being able to knock your enemies down, it’s being able to hold yourself upright against their blows.

I pull my lower lip all the way in between my teeth. If I try hard enough, maybe I can gobble my whole self this way.... I didn't try hard enough to swallow myself.

We are young and the night is young. We are in the middle of somewhere and we are feeling everything.

Life can be how you choose or are governed by fate.

When you read a comic book, there's a space between what's happening on the panel and what you have to literally see in your mind. That's not true of movies, where you see everything.

If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still — nothing.

I wanted to be a Bride of Christ but I guess now I'm a young divorcee.

All of the directors I've worked with I've gotten along with very well.