Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.

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.

Sometimes witchraft is when the heart is full of hate that it consumes your mind not appreciate good things that are done by other people.

Normally a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor asks it to.

Sometimes I think I know everything, but I also underestimate what God really is.

I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.

Donald Trump thinks belittling women makes him bigger. We need to stand up and be clear that we don't want this, we need to celebrate diversity. America is great because America is good.

A moment on the lips is a lifetime on the hips.

When things are really desperate and hopeless and you can't do anything about this, and there's a sense that something must be done, that is something usually leads to the U.N.

You don't want to ruin a kid's life for having a joint.

I'm just in work mode, and that prevents me from going into the Hollywood starlet mode, I suppose.

A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard... Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.