I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books.

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.

Every relationship is a cost benefit calculation

Listen to the whisper of the ocean. See the beauty of her crystal blue eyes. Enjoy the hug of her warm, joyful and dancing beauty. Feel her deep driving desire in her waves.

We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.

What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.

Looking back doesn't have to be painful.

Outside, in the newly fallen darkness, the world had been transformed. The sky had become a glistening tapestry of stars.

Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.

Good fiction necessarily encompasses our limited understandings of one another, and of ourselves.

The only way I can stop people from stealing is also not to steal myself, and it's one of the most difficult things.

The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.