How did her life live itself without her.

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.

Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.

Line of control should be a garden, a place of art and cultural festival.

One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to absorb him.

The triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment. Whereas the groanings of the righteous are but short, and their jubilee and triumph shall be everlasting.

Grace / to be born and live as variously as possible

If you lose a game, everyone asks why this player didn't play. If we win, nobody asks.

He that, when he should not, spends too much, shall, when he would not, have too little to spend.

We have to think before we act.

Archives exist because there's something that can't necessarily be articulated. Something is said in the gaps between all the information.

When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms.