Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.

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.

I have some strong positive reasons why I am on the path that I am, and this is why moving forward is the only option that my mind sees.

You Can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is not on focus.

I believe that traditional religious belief and scientific knowledge depict the universe in radically different ways. At the bedrock they are incompatible and mutually exclusive.

The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way?

The first thing that has to be broken down is your relationship to authority. Your insecurity could possibly be the wedge that opens up your perspective on what you think is possible for you to do.

The trouble with this business is the dearth of bad pictures.

The most important thing we're doing differently is that we talk openly about gender at Facebook.

I used to be a free spirit.

I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal

You need that same creative force that exists in a building like Disney [Walt Disney Concert Hall] to actually tackle that most prosaic of problems.