His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.

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.

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.

Without asking anybody’s advice I turned myself insane sitting under the same sun and the same clouds.

But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.

I am a daylight atheist.

We can have enough clean energy to power every home.

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

You look at Gone With the Wind, how right Vivian Leigh was for that. Don't know if that would happen today.

In the United States, it's the mandate of the FBI to gather information relating to terrorism, go out and collect it, to do the interviews, to do the investigative work.

When hiring, mix Harvard Nerds with Chicago Improvisers and stir.

I think the patterns are set very early when the kids are young. But at the same time, there are some flavors kids just don't like.

Tis a cruelty to load a fallen man.