Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It's almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.

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 have within you, right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

I'll bet he light in the window.

The miracle of a single tree in the middle of nowhere originates from its own power, its own belief in itself!

If we conservatives “of color” refuse to promote the welfare state, unfettered abortion, affirmative action, and massive immigration, we are guilty of “selling out.

I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.

Maybe we judge people too much by their looks because it's easier than seeing what's really important.

Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning.

Beware of over-confidence; especially in matters of structure.

Bring me liquor, Bones, fast, to take my foot out of my mouth. Cat to Bones

It's just such a blessing that I get to be paid for something that I'm in love with.