I miss smoking (two to four packs a day) but I don't miss the crackle in my lungs when I breathed.

Our ability to factory farm animals is coldly psychopathic.

I think we learn slowly as a group, but we learn. The ozone layer is still there.

I don't see the point of pretending we're clones.

I don't know if I have a book in me, but I'm sure I have more essays.

I usually tame my off-kilter sense of humor for novels.

I think we're in a 1970s-level moment of social transition and they're always full of upheaval. As violent and deranged as we can be to each other and to other species, we've got nothing on tsunamis, hurricanes or tornadoes.