Yesterday I wanted to turn inside out.

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.

Pumpkins are the only living organisms with triangle eyes.

Cole sat back up, slowly, and I opened my eyes. His expression, as ever, was blank, the face he wore when something mattered. He said, "That's how I would kiss you, if I loved you.

From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints good Lord deliver us.

Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.

If you're going to kill the animal it seems only polite to use the whole thing.

The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and suffering.

On the whole, British actors star in theater, and I think there's something quite grounding about that.

I've never really thought about competing with cartoons. If it ever gets to that point, then just shoot me.

It's not good to meet you heroes. The humanity in them or the a**hole in them will bring it down. And you don't want to do that.