Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.

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.

Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you an' do it fust.

People always say golfers don't smile. But there is so much psychology in golf so we have to be a bit robotic.

My point is, I don't see the need to eat animals. I love animals; besides the horrible stuff that's put in meat, I actually love cuddling with animals and petting them and stuff.

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.

Man's worst tragedy in life is his failure to reach his greatest potential

Our life is...a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment.

It's up to each of us to get very still and say, 'This is who I am.' No one else defines your life. Only you do.

The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this lifetime.

Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.

I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal.