Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

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.

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.

It took me as long as I had known him to get rid of all of his words. Like turning an hourglass over.

There is more stupidity around than hydrogen and it has longer shelf life.

Your body's just a vehicle, transporting the soul. It's what's inside of people, is beauty to behold.

Transcendence: that which transcends experience.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

Laws aren't ghosts in this country, they walk around with the smell of earth on them.

How many of you would put in front of your house a sign that says gun-free zone?

One who preserves all the exterior decencies of ignorance.

As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.

Transportation spending is a win-win proposition.

The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange.