What do babies dream of? She must be dreaming of the before-life, just as I dream of the afterlife.

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.

My job is to talk to you and your job is to listen. If you finish first please let me know.

All the wisdom doesn’t reside in one party.

Put in the superlatives yourselves, I'm running out. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy.

I don't have a Twitter account. I don't go to fan club gatherings. I'm not one of those actors who spends a lot of time engaging with the audience.

Bikes are clearly a superior form of transportation when it comes to just simple getting around. A car makes sense if you need to carry a bunch of stuff.

He moves like a dancer.

Develop an enthusiasm for life, create a need for more life, and you will receive more life.

I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they've already done.

If two New Hampshiremen aren't a match for the devil, we might as well give the country back to the Indians.

There are parts of his life and personality that are extremely messy, and that's the truth