I ran rather than walked, anxious to lose my way. All I wanted was to be unsure.

When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.

Find a printer paper and imagine a full-grown bird shaped something like a football with legs standing on it. Imagine 33,000 of these rectangles in a grid. (Broilers are never in cages, and never on multiple levels.) Now enclose the grid with windowless walls and put a ceiling on top. Run in automated (drug-laced) feed, water, heating, and ventilation systems. This is a farm.

Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights.

When you look up 'hilarious' in the dictionary, there's a picture of you.

So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!

But I knew the truth and that's why I was so sad. Every moment before this one depends on this one. Everything in the history of the world can be proven wrong in one moment.