Try to live so that you can always tell the truth.

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.

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

Whatever you decide, don't let it be because you don't think you have a choice.

Vampires were always either trying to kill me, or own me. God I hated being popular.

People calculate too much and think too little.

I don't like to go out in general.

A lot of young chefs today get carried away by trends, by influences, by movements.

I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.

Well, there's nothing strange about Americans as a whole. But, Angelinos are different!

School is so overwhelming - you can get lost in the idea that yes, you are going to be alone.

I think we have a need to know what we do not need to know.