People who want to find a place of rest, want to find an integrated personality, sense of self, want fewer fractures in their lives.

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.

In this vast cosmic orchestra, peace is the music of every heart. Our glory lies in understanding, listening and honoring that music.

A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another than this, that when the injury began on his part, the kindness begins on ours.

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

I think people in my district expect me to work with the president. It doesn't mean we have to agree all the time. I don't feel any extra pressure.

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth: for kings are not only God's Lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called Gods.

You haven't prepared yourself for worship if you just practice musical art

Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.

All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.