When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

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.

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 took me as long as I had known him to get rid of all of his words. Like turning an hourglass over.

Your life, your world.

Love is thicker than blood, its blind to color, it is its own culture

Man is in his own microcosm akin to a personal box, with poetry as its lid which it can defend itself from the world

We try and reflect that there's a lot of optimism, there's a lot of positive things that are happening in 'Silicon Valley'.

If I'm going to do something, I do it spectacularly or I don't do it at all.

If you're going to play a woman, you might as well play a woman that you liked, and someone sexy.

The birch trees loom ahead like a brotherhood of ghosts.

I don't mind that people have questions and would look for someone to respond to their questions, particularly if their faith is not terribly well-known.

The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone.

Love aright and you will never be sad. Embrace God's will and you will be filled with joy and peace.