I felt it very moving to feel his touch, and to remember that hands can also show love.

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.

She lacked the sheen of money, muscular good health, good skin, good clothes.

I am the penny whistle of American literature.

We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.

When leading people and serving Heaven, nothing exceeds moderation.

That is one good thing about this world - there are always sure to be more springs.

Our feeling is that the status quo often gets a boost and this is the new status quo.

...the questions a photographer raises may be more profound than the answers the medium permits.

To launch a business means successfully solving problems. Solving problems means listening.

I think America loves cooperative black men. I am not against Colin Powell, but I know who he is.

Boredom is a disease, too.