Technology celebrates connectedness, but encourages retreat.

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.

Forty-one rules aren't so many - St. Benedict had 73 to keep the brethren on the straight and narrow.

My show was revolutionary, ground-breaking. When I came on the scene, people were not doing a thing.

Evaluate what you want - because what gets measured, gets produced.

In 2013, there were 6,261 black homicide victims in the US — almost all killed by black civilians.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Even in rapture, part of the mind watches.

Americans are always a little bit insecure.

Actors, after all, dream.

It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also taught by apostolic authority.

I was always interested in the possibility maybe of finding my way into a big adventure.