She was not crying Which surprised me very much But I understand now That she had found places For her melancholy That were behind more masks Than only her eyes

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.

Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.

Justice and judgement lie often a world apart."~ Emmeline Pankhurst

No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players know that counts.

Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.

Don't fake enthusiasms. Say what you think, not what you think you ought to think.

Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in kind.

We sit in meditation and cry to God, we cry to the light, as little children, knowing God will do everything for us.

There are areas of official life in the United States that are similar to Russia. For example: disbursement of protest, and the way American prisons are run, which is pretty tough.

Paul's last words to Linda: "You're up on your beautiful Appaloosa stallion. It's a fine spring day. We're riding through the woods. The bluebells are all out, and the sky is clear-blue".

I wonder men dare trust themselves with men.