The factory farm has succeeded by divorcing people from their food, eliminating farmers, and ruling agriculture by corporate fiat.

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.

Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.

Going full steam ahead.

If you are free to be yourself, You would love to be yourself.

My rule is never save bits. They get the way, and you don't think of anything new. Put 'em in. Make a big mess.

I’m done with the winning cause I’ve already won.

Now, settle down, settle down. Hell, I'm an old man, it's early in the morning and I'm gathering my thoughts here.

The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.

The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.

I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.

I'm gonna be real - there's no female rappers in the game.