It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and destructive food products should be illegal. We don't need the option of buying children's toys made with lead paint, or aerosols with chlorofluorocarbons, or medicines with unlabeled side effects. And we don't need the option of buying factory-farmed animals.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

He couldn't bear to live, but he couldn't bear to die. He couldn't bear the thought of he making love to someone else, but neither could he bear the absence of the thought. And as for the note, he couldn't bear to keep it, but he couldn't bear to destroy it either.

We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.

She was so beautiful, like someone who you will never meet, but always dream of meeting, like someone who is too good for you.

There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.

We are breeding creatures incapable of surviving in any place other than the most artificial settings. We have focused the awesome power of modern genetic knowledge to bring into being animals that suffer more.