I'd lost count of the disappointments.

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.

you must not come lightly to the blank page.

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.

There should be no boundary to human endeavor.

Lipstick on your collar said you were untrue. Bet your bottom dollar, you and I are through.

The nagual is the unknown. It cannot be talked about, it can only be witnessed.

Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.

The more our world functions like the natural world, the more likely we are to endure on this home that is ours, but not ours alone.

While other nations do battle, you lucky Austria, you wed.

Inspiration can come from anywhere - an image, a comment, something that's happened to me or someone I know. It's hard to know exactly.

I never talk about things that don't matter. I never talk about things that are unimportant. I always talk about things that interest me.