Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

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.

All I have is me, myself and I and we are all getting really tired of each other.

Fate is a ladder on which you cannot afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one step would mean you'll never make it to the top.

5,000 years of human history should not be overthrown by the acts of a few liberal judges or by the acts of a few local elected officials.

Never argue when you're winning.

It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.

When WHO works with the private sector, the Organization takes all possible measures to ensure its work to develop policy and guidelines is protected from industry influence.

I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.

There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.

One of the most important goals to have may well be the goal to create the life you want without preventing other people from creating the life they want.

Everyone has experienced alienation - at some point you go through a moment where you say: "I just want to be left alone." And what is the ultimate point of being alone? - it's dying, of course.