and i wouldn't say no to something sweet.

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.

It does not matter what you write in English nobody has understood it anyway.

Believe it or not, one teacher used to call me a giant spastic for not being able to play football.

I've never done a teen movie before, but I certainly could tell you some of the ones I came very close on. I was very close on Clueless and She's All That.

(Yes teenage boys who are fine always cry on their mothers’ shoulders until they leave a snot trail.)

I work out as little as I can for as much gain as I can. Yoga and a little bit of ballet -- only 30 or 40 minutes every other day. I keep supple for myself more than for roles.

I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing - dreams of escape.

We all marry strangers. All men are strangers to all women.

It came to me that hell would not be fire and smoke after all but arctic, everything white and frigid. Hell would be not anger but indifference.

Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on.

Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?