You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

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.

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

If you do a good deed to reap the reward of blessings, wouldn't you be performing a selfish act?

I guess the higher up on the food chain you go, the admiration isn’t just for the hungry, but for the ones that go the extra mile to take a bite.

The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably.

For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted to love, and to be loved.

When you love what you do, you tend to work harder anyway

Happiness is... the grace of being permitted to unfold... all the spiritual powers planted within us.

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.

A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.

My wife can't figure out what to buy me. What do you give a man who's had everything up to here?

Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.