Years were passing through the spaces between moments.

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.

If you're bored, you're boring.

Once exposed, a secret loses all its power.

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

I come from a family of very strong women, women who have endured very tough lives in hopes of a better one for their children.

I don't have a lot of regrets in my life.

Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.

Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled.

Animation is not just for children - it's also for adults who take drugs.

The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants.

I like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue.