Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away (from the animal, our plate, our concern, ourselves) or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something

It is unrealistic to think you can have an inflexible identity that never has to give or take or make compromises.

I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.

People hurt each other. That's what people do.

People who become used to saying little become used to feeling little.

It will never be the case that people won't eat meat. I think it could conceivably be the case one day that people eat very small amounts of it. That it's a special thing, rather than reach for it because it's cheap or reach for it because it's convenient, that it becomes something festive or something celebratory, once a week, and that could actually be achieved on small farms if we really changed our habits.

I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.