Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.

my own relationships with the animals in my life are absurdly complex: Some I love, some I eat, and the scraps left over from the ones I eat, I feed to the ones I love.

A flower is a plant's way of making love.

Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.

Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.

I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other.

Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.