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.

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 took me as long as I had known him to get rid of all of his words. Like turning an hourglass over.

Death was easy. Life was complicated.

Whenever it rains, I remember him, not as a tear that hails down as a raindrop, but as a God of fertility. As, every time I remember him, his memories conceive a baby of emotions in me!

Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one's body and train one's mind.

It's all just venom to the soul and symptomatic of a larger issue: the idea of the shortcut. The result without the fight. The fight is the thing. The work.

Why do men think you can pick love up and re-light it like a candle? Women know when love is over.

I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.

How we leave the world is more important than how we enter it.

If I don't enjoy myself now, when shall I?

I don't want to make plop art — sculpture that just gets plopped down in places. I wouldn't want to litter every corner of the world with my sculpture.

I'm from where your hustle determines your salary.