The Eskimos have four hundred words for snow, and the Jewshave four hundred for schmuck.

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.

Pride is seldom delicate: it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.

Sometimes it's the little things that count most.

It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.

I am not the sharpest knife in the knife-thing

We need a new government that works.

I don't like to stop. I believe when you stop, you die.

My statements aren't incomplete, they're just in-progress. It's a debate and a discussion.

I don't mind being disliked - I will be the one to step up and say what needs to be said if it helps one woman who comes after me.

Cities are judged by their richest inhabitants and rural areas are judged