Profound, bottomless self-doubt - it has no value - what's the point? In a way, it takes up as much time as anything else.

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 you haven't caused a scene in a psych unit, it's just because you haven't been inside long enough.

What advantage has the person who will not listen over the one who cannot hear?

After all, why things ended up in a way that you never imagine.

We all have the duty to do good.

It is no coincidence that Jesus talks endlessly about love. Free love. Unconditional love.

I know only one method of operation: to be as honest with others as I am with myself.

I mean, you can't be less ruthless than the opposition simply because your government's policy is benevolent, can you now?

When I go to China I see many artists whose work reflects on aspects of contemporary popular culture but obviously the history of Western art is not part of their own tradition.

Most of us tiptoe through life in order to make it safely to death.

The same thing could have happened on Halloween if somebody in the neighborhood had jumped out and scared him.