I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.

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 think you must be some kind of a freak. Either that or you’re trying toconvert me to your secret horse religion.”“Darn, you got me, ” she says theatrically. “You thwarted my evil plan.

I am always positive, prosperous-minded and filled with self-confidence.

How much had I missed in these months of despair and numbness?

Entrepreneur, either your brand is distinct or your brand is distant.

A parade looks like a bunch of people are excited about being in traffic.

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state

It doesn't bother me at all that some people think I am too outspoken.

I never had an interest in being a mayor ’cause that’s a real job. You have to produce. That’s why I was able to be a senator for 36 years.

This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough

Before you put pen to paper, before you ring for your stenographer, decide in your own mind what effect you want to produce on your reader — what feeling you must arouse in him.