We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.

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.

How you approach birth is intimately connected with how you approach life

It is what it is. Isn't that how these things always go? They are what they are. We just get to cope.

I am afraid of darkness... even though it knows me it loves me.

Leadership is about making the right decision and the best decision before, sometimes, it becomes entirely popular.

And indeed we believe you [God] to be something than which a greater cannot be conceived.

Lawyers and rogues are vermin not easily rooted out of a rich soil.

Christianity teaches salvation by grace through faith, every other religion teaches salvation through works and merit.

A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.

Who are we to ask God if it is his will.

I still look to music to heal and bind; I still think the musician can be a trusted object offering his fellow-man solace but also a reminder of human excellence.