A single, ordinary person still can make a difference - and single, ordinary people are doing precisely that every day.

As Jeremy Bentham had asked about animals well over two hundred years ago, the question was not whether they could reason or talk, but could they suffer? And yet, somehow, it seemed to take more imagination for humans to identify with animal suffering than it did to conceive of space flight or cloning or nuclear fusion. Yes, she was a fanatic in the eyes of most of the country. . .Mostly, however, she just lacked patience for people who wouldn't accept her belief that humans inflicted needless agony on the animals around them, and they did so in numbers that were absolutely staggering.

We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven.

When it seems you have nothing at all to live for, death is not especially frightening.

He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not.

Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine. . .and then make them plausible.

A single, ordinary person still can make a difference - and single, ordinary people are doing precisely that every day.