The gift is for you...The surprise is for me.

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.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours.

When you told me you loved me, " Lily's eyes widened when she looked at Lux, "You saved the world.

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?

I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.

I don't know anything and neither do you.

If I had anything to say I'd have a say to everybody.

If you can get a twelve year-old kid to go listen to Thelonius Monk, what more do you want? Do you want a big pile of cash, too? That's a home run for me.

Just you,' Hardy said when he got his breath back. 'All I want is you.

Every Catholic is one good Confession away from potential sainthood.

People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish.