Arterial-plaque specials that save minutes now can cost years, later on.

The longer you live, the more likely you are to have something to say.

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

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.

To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.

What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.

You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.