Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].

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.

The seeking face that will not alter when presented with reason, must delight in its wearer's prideful ignorance.

He trusts her.She nodded andseemed happy to betrusted at last.- Not First Love

The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come.

We can bring positive energy into our daily lives by smiling more, talking to strangers in line, replacing handshakes with hugs, and calling our friends just to tell them we love them.

I believe AIDS is the most important issue we face, because how we treat the poor is a reflection of who we are as a people.

I could depend a lot on my shaking, though I never shimmied vulgarly and only to express myself.

Most of those Negroes have been given those jobs by the white political machine, and they serve no other function other than to, as window dressing.

Dark clouds become heaven's flowers when kissed by light.

I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.

The ego is the separate self through which the universal self can experience the adventure of living.