The writing itself is no big deal. The editing, and even more than that, the self-doubt, is excruciatingly impossible.

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.

Maybe he's up to something, maybe he'ś not really crazy after all. Perhaps he just got fed up acting normal and decided to act crazy instead, and they locked him up because he went too far.

I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.

I didn't kill innocent people.

I'd love to be a woman for one day of my life... God... I would be drunk with power.

Self-approbation, when founded in truth and a good conscience, is a source of some of the purest joys known to man.

When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long.

Seventh Generation’s work with Carol Sanford made me a better values-based leader.

I feel that if I can show my demise artistically to the public, I can somehow cure my own legend.

Never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you.