Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don't mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.

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.

I could think, write or tell, instead I Lived and Created Myself!

Rehab is one thing, but it takes years to get that attitude adjustment.

This complaining rambling rubbish is the substitute which has taken the place of love.

The best form of defense is attack.

There's nothing like a nice piece of hickory.

In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.

Capital markets reward you for what you learn that other people have yet to ascertain.

To my credit, I think I'm a gentle control freak. Maybe even a little manipulative.

Baptism separates the tire kickers from the car buyers.

Quiet and incredible. I really envy that.