We've made science experiments of ourselves and our children.

I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.

The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.

If people thought about food more like how we think about the environment, a lot of people would be eating differently and the whole system would look a lot different.

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

We can't plead ignorance, only indifference. Those alive today are the generations that came to know better. We have the burden and the opportunity of living in the moment when the critique of factory farming broke into the popular consciousness. We are the ones of whom it will be fairly asked, What did you do when you learned the truth about eating animals?

Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy. There is no better use of a life than to be attentive to such needs.