Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.

The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.

For himself, then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more convenient shape for processing.

Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths

I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.

I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.

Once I lived in time as a fish in water, breathing it, drinking it, sustained by it. Now I kill time and time kills me.