Which, then, brings us closer to what we want to communicate: saying what we intend, or trying to say the opposite?

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.

I didn't feel strong. I felt like a big ball of wuss that wanted to curl up in my bed and never get out.

Faith declares what the senses do not see but not the contrary of what they see.

Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.

What happened to fun?" "Our insurance doesn't cover it!

The universe is a giant mind. Some people have the ability to tap into that mind, we call them psychic. Others don't, we call them dull ... but they have potential.

The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.

The thing that sucks is that there’s so much false data because people are in mystery as to what Scientology is, so they just kind of make up stuff.

I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?

To be in the association of those aspiring to love God is the ultimate gift of God.

The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.