Denunciations of the manipulativeness of advertisers can unfortunately all too easily be turned on their heads into denunciations of the gullibility of consumers. Both are forms of scapegoating, neither accomplishes anything.

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.

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.

When we are stirred to lament the loss of the gods, it is more than likely the gods who are doing the stirring.

Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.

There seemed nothing to do but live.