Whether we're talking about fish species, pigs, or some other eaten animal, is such suffering the most important thing in the world? Obviously not. But that's not the question. Is it more important that sushi, bacon, or chicken nuggets? That's the question.

I didn't feel empty. I wished I'd felt empty. ... I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.

The animals are those things that God likes but doesn't love.

Everyone performs bad actions... A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions.

If it weren't my life, I wouldn't have believed it.

We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?

There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world.