Oh,' she said. 'I have never seen a Jew before. Can I see his horns?

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.

In every person lies a beast and a giant. Be careful which of them you awaken to the world with your interactions with people.

A wise walker will set out early, keeping an open mind on how far to travel, allowing each day's adventure to evolve.

He's lost everything once, and now, he wasn't sure if he had anything left to lose.

One must work, nothing but work, and one must have patience.

There's never enough time to do nothing!

memory is a storm I can't repel.

Young man, if I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist.

As long as we keep winning, I'm happy.

The economy is better than the one President [Barack] Obama inherited, and unemployment is lower, but the unemployment rate gap remains large.

I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me - yet I sometimes long for it.