We all choose things, and we also all choose against things. I want to be the kind of person who chooses for more than chooses against.

Marriage is like a chess match is initiated and the board expands over time until it takes up all of a life.

Everything else happened - why not the things that could have?

I'm a novelist, I'm not an activist. I'm not a non-fiction writer, I'm not a journalist. I'm not a foodie, I'm not even really an animal person, or an environmentalist. I did the best I could with this, but it's not who I am.

It took me as long as I had known him to get rid of all of his words. Like turning an hourglass over.

Reality Hunger is more than thought-provoking; it's one of the most beautiful books I've read in a long time.

Factory farming, of course, does not cause all the world's problems, but is is remarkable just how many of them intersect there.