It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.

People who want to find a place of rest, want to find an integrated personality, sense of self, want fewer fractures in their lives.

Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away (from the animal, our plate, our concern, ourselves) or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something

I think it's very pretty. Can it be pretty if no one thinks it's pretty? I think it's pretty. If you're the only one? That's pretty pretty. And what about the boys? Don't you want them to think you're pretty? I wouldn't want a boy to think I was pretty unless he was the kind of boy who thought I was pretty.

Imagine being served a plate of sushi. But this plate also holds all of the animals that were killed for your serving of sushi. The plate might have to be five feet across.

The Eskimos have four hundred words for snow, and the Jewshave four hundred for schmuck.

If god exists, he is not to be believed in.