I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.

Downstream is always someone else's up.

Parenting is something that happens mostly while you're thinking of something else.

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.

There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it's like having a stranger as a house guest in your skin.

the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners

Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.