I made up my mind that nothing,, nothing was going to stop me Not even me.

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.

Habits of the mind also provide our mental framework – the way we see the world

I understood that menstruation - the indication that you're a real woman - stopped if you grew weak from illness

If this is the information age, what are we so well-informed about?

You are actually pre-paving your future experiences constantly. ... You are continually projecting your expectations into your future experiences.

It is my opinion that a man's soul may be buried and perish under a dung-heap, or in a furrow field, just as well as under a pile of money.

Those who do not know history are probably also not doing well in English or math. P.J. O'Rourke

I've heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.

I got some bad ideas in my head.

Don't be negative. It shows on your face.

Our usual attitude is of 'I am this'. Separate consistently and perseveringly the 'I am' from 'this' or 'that', and try to feel what is means to be, just to be, without being 'this' or 'that'.