We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We can't stop our eating from radiating influence even if we want to.

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.

Movies are an expensive business.

The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts.

My parents weren't stereotypical and pressuring me to go to college. They mentioned it a lot and constantly, but it wasn't a do or die thing, like, 'You have to do this or you're done.

Anything which retains interest is optimistic. When the characters become disinterested, it's pessimistic. Does that make sense?

But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .

You can bear anything if it is not your fault.

You do everything you weren't allowed to do in school. Jumping up and down, screaming, annoying people, and people love you for it.

It's more important to do big things well than to do small things perfectly.

A philosopher once said, 'It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results.' Well, they don't!

For atheism and polytheism there is no special problem of suffering, nor need there be for every kind of monotheism.