The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless.

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.

Although, in my defense, a nonblinking eye rape was rarely the kind of thing you just eased into.

Maybe I have said it, maybe I haven't chess isn't about math, it's about strategy. If you know math this doesn't make you good in chess, you must have strategy to win.

The hardest thing, as a director, is that it's never right. Nothing you do is ever right. It's never exactly how you envision it. Making a movie is about making it better.

If you're the smartest one of your friends, you need new friends.

Donald Trump is an "America first" guy. He said, "We protect everyone else's borders but our own."

I want to privilege the moment.

The ball is an essential part of the game.

When I was growing up, I lived in a neighborhood that was largely Latino and I thought I was Latino!

Our bread and water are of one table: the progeny of Adam are as a single soul.

I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford.