What does it remember like?

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.

It's time for people in business to take steps to recharge the workplace.

The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.

There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.

A child can have too many toys, but never enough books.

I have two brothers and we basically spent our lives playing in the woods, falling in ponds, getting chased by wasps and riding donkeys that we shouldn't have been riding.

Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.

The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know you are sad.

I have a really strong suspicion of the romantic nature of portraiture, the idea that you're telling some essential truth about the interior lives of your subject.

Im a Harry Potter fan, a Twilight fan, and I think The Hunger Games surpasses them all.

I'm pretty tight - I rewrite, in some cases, 70 to 80 times before I show it to people.