This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.

I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.

People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.

I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.

A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right.

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

With all due respect for the wondrous ways people have invented to amuse themselves and one another on paved surfaces, I find that this exodus from the land makes me unspeakably sad. I think of the children who will never know, intuitively, that a flower is a plant's way of making love, or what silence sounds like, or that trees breathe out what we breathe in.