I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do. They show us that conversations are possible across distances.

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.

Your perspective determines your experiences, attitude and the quality of your life.

From so much self-revising, I’ve destroyed myself. From so much self-thinking, I’m now my thoughts and not I

In criticism, I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

I believe the United States should make the protection of Syrian civilians from war crimes and crimes against humanity a higher priority.

I'm very good at meeting people, very outgoing.

When you have been to the lowest part of your life, you have no choice but to sit back and just think about things. You just pay attention to so much more.

Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.

It's something that's really fun to do. It's a family business.

I campaigned for [Dennis] Kucinich in 2008. I continue to be in touch with him and I really admire him. I think he's very brave and honest - unusually so for a U.S. politician.

When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.