What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?

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.

First love is dangerous only when it is also the last.

Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.

astonishing splashes of colour

That the existence of the Soviet Union has an international revolutionary significance is a commonplace equally recognized by friends and foes.

We live in a world where people are really hungry for information, and they're not hungry for information on subjects that they're not interested in.

Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they were not operations, they were executions.

Sorry am I to say, I have often observed that I have performed worst when I most ardently wished to do better than ever.

We've taken what was just once a racetrack and made it a multifaceted gaming destination for the entire region.

I thought we’d turned a corner. Maybe we did, but we hit a brick wall anyway.

No person ever ended his eyesight by looking on the bright side.