She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.

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.

She personified her name in everything she did. Even when we would row, her words were deftly chosen and spoken rather like an intricate dance. And I so loved to dance with her.

When I'm with my friends I'm funny, but I don't feel like I'm a funny clown.

Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.

In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.

I write the music I like. If other people like it, fine, they can go buy the albums. And if they don't like it, there's always Michael Jackson for them to listen to.

When we run ahead of God, we run into trouble.

Win, lose, or tie, you're gonna play like champions!

Someone, I was beginning to suspect, had a bit of a gangster complex. It wasn't really very hard to figure out who. I mean, I was guessing it wasn't Christopher's aunt Jackie.

I believe work is good. There is dignity in work. I also believe that a hard-work ethic forges strong leaders.

Maybe I should write 'Tiger Who?' on my cap.