I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain.

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.

Finding your bliss can make survival seem like. And a strange thing happens along the way when you love what you are doing: you become good at it.

Sanity - a trick of agreement

Man is a social animal formed to please in society.

There's just no substitute for the truth.

An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides.

I am there to play tennis and represent the U.S., but I'm also aware that not everyone's going to be able to think that way.

College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.

You're never too old. Unfortunately, you're always too young to know it.

Faith comes not through pondering but through action.

A light here required a shadow there.