When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.

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.

You spoke your words as though you denied the very existence of the shadows or of evil. Think, now: where would your good be if there were no evil and what would the world look like without shadow?

One must scratch that part of the body or mind that itches.

I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place.

Australians are a fantastic bunch of people but the attention can be overwhelming for someone like me.

I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.

Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark world.

Power: The ability to force or coerce someone to do your will, even if they would choose not to, because of your position or your might.

Social comparison that leads to unhappiness is the downside of social media.

I was babysitting the night High School Musical premiered last year. I watched with the kids and we sang along to the lyrics. I was making $12 an hour.

First get rid of the delusion "I am the body," then only will we want real knowledge.