That’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there.

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.

Every sunrise is priceless and you can experience the richness that life holds only when you live life to the full instead of just being an onlooker.

Joblessness releases you from the world system

An attempt to study the evolution of living organisms without reference to cytology would be as futile as an account of stellar evolution which ignored spectroscopy.

I am one of those people who can't help getting a kick out of life-even when it's a kick in the teeth.

We're special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here. That's not just my story. That's your story. That's our story.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

You always admire what you really don't understand. - Eleanor Roosevelt

I love being outdoors and try to work out outside when I can. I spent most of my childhood outdoors.

It's rare that a movie generally considered a popcorn type movie, gets recognized among such serious, great fare.

This is the debate we have every time we talk about the minimum wage, that if we raise it even 50 cents, that it means employers are just going to shut down. It's not true.