For how long could we fail until we surrendered?

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.

Human nature, though being the product of historical evolution, has certain inherent mechanisms and laws, to discover which is the task of psychology.

For the first 30years of life, you keep learning. The rest of your life you keep unlearning what you had learnt

All Knowledge is dangerous

You have to find a way to laugh a little bit each day despite everything, or your heart will simply run out of the joy that makes it go.

I experienced an ecstasy of unity. I not only saw the connectedness, I felt it and experienced it sentiently. The restraints and boundaries of flesh and bone fell away.

You can do anything that you wanna do, but uh-uh, don't step on my cowboy boots.

A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming.

I think right now is the best time for stand-up, ever. I sincerely do.

The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.

Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.