I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.

People will say to you, "Oh, you are fearless." That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It's a slander, really.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.

I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.

This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.