The American dream itself is declining.

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.

Mmm, bacon.

Peace, love, and chicken fingers man...

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The very "least" among us has the enormous power to effect change through small acts of determination and will.

Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.

Shadows cannot harm the almighty!

How wondrous familiar is a fool!

Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them.

Man can be literally transformed by his own repentance and by God's gift of forgiveness.

I wonder what my speech would be.