We all choose things, and we also all choose against things. I want to be the kind of person who chooses for more than chooses against.

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.

If somebody tells you ‘History will never forgive you, ’ just laugh at him! Because when the history comes, you won’t be here! The threat of history never forgives you is a useless threat!

You know, maybe we don't need enemies.""Yeah, best friends aree about all I can take.

My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.

There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves.

The natural way of ensuring that the past continues to live in the present and to inform the future is to write it down.

Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please, confusion and disorder become rampant.

No news is good news. No journalists is even better.

Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

It was a tough film ["Selling Isobel"] to make anyway, because we had limited resources.