The books could be completely worthless, and things we don't even read now could be considered the most important books.

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.

Think, speak and act positively.

Together with the call comes responsibility

It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities

Much of the time your attention is directed towards the world of sexuality, it's done through the second attention of a woman - not simply in your physical presence but from thousands of miles away.

Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.

In other words, more violent tornadoes would, if anything, be a sign of 'global cooling', not 'global warming'.

The truth is to be found nowhere else other than within ourselves.

Soon I'll be thinner than all of you, she swore to herself. And then I'll be the winner. The thinner is the winner.