Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses?

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!

We know, at least, that this decision (ending factory farming) will help prevent deforestation, curb global warming, reduce pollution, save oil reserves, lessen the burden on rural America, decrease human rights abuses, improve publish health, and help eliminate the most systematic animal abuse in history.

I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than your normal disposition, and I am always the same thing. Perhaps I am the only person in the world, then, who never becomes sad. Perhaps I am lucky.

I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.

I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness.