People shouldn't be allowed to get married until it's too late to have kids.

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.

The gesture was so tight with rage she feared she’d snap and crack the world in two.

Knowledge is a rope, and you're weaving a noose out of it. Leave some slack for the enemy.

What happens after death is so glorious that our imagination, our feelings do not suffice to form even an approimate conception of it. Memories and Dreams, Carl Jung

If you train yourself in memory work, you fearlessly attack and rearrange your material, for you can retain your original impression.

Religion is not something I like to talk about publicly. One reason is the politics, but also I think spirituality is deeply personal.

If I were only allowed to read or enjoy art or listen to music made by people whose opinions and beliefs were the same as mine, I think the world would be a pretty dismal sort of a place.

Having no problems is the biggest problem of all.

Half of bravery is perspective.

Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?