The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.

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.

A tissue of small sounds filled the room, a bird, a clock, a voice from another garden. What we call silence.

Union with God is the only heaven there is, and it begins here on earth.

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

I wanted to do a collection where the narrator is constant throughout, so that there's a little unity.

The best people to love are the ones that you don't have to try to love.

The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.

Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

Even enemies were an inch away from friendship.

Don't punish yourself for what others have done to you. You're better than them. You're better than you think.

Economics spreads happiness.