...there are only some many times you can utter "It does not hurt" before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.

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.

It is the gospel of the kingdom that makes the difference.

The role of the artist is to not look away.

I happen to be a hopeaholic. I tend to look at problems as an opportunity to do some work.

People!" she screamed. "There are people here! New people!

No sign of purpose can be detected in any part of the vast universe disclosed by our most powerful telescopes.

Raising a child is the only relationship you have where if you do it right, it will end in separation.

Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed.

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Measure your success by your inner scorecard versus an outer one.

If you want to be a better web hacker, hang out with a painter.