A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises.

When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Men want all women to lie down as whores and get up as virgins.

Those who run around with women don't walk tightropes. They find it hard enough to crawl on the ground.

I know as a writer how valuable a tool is the wastebasket. Perhaps God throws away many experiments before He finds the right expression. Perhaps we are the discards - or we could be the part He keeps. This mystery is what keeps us all going, to see what happens in the next chapter.

There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals.