She was so beautiful, like someone who you will never meet, but always dream of meeting, like someone who is too good for you.

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 I grew up in the simple-minded belief that women were as strong and intelligent as men, it was because I came from a society that had once believed it.

Failure is a great teacher

There is no such thing as 'God given scripture', 'the messenger of God' or 'the Last Prophet'.

A clear conscience is due to a poor memory.

Nine times out of ten, declension from God begins in the neglect of private prayer.

It's just some instinct as old as fear: you seek the dark when you hide, you seek the light when the need to hide is gone. All the animals have it too.

People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds.

Fitzgerald said a very interesting thing in his diary; that human life proceeds from the good to the less good - that is, it's always worse as you go on. That's true.

Because of empathy, stories of the suffering of one person could lead us into a war that could kill millions of people.

The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.