They do not desire anything more than everything they have known.

There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world.

I don't mind if smiles come at my expense, I'm a small price to pay.

I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.

There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming, it systematically forces tens of billions of animals to suffer in ways that would be illegal if they were dogs, it is a decisive factor in the development of swine and avian flus, and so on.

September 11 had such a strong visual component, the most visually documented event in human history. Nothing's ever been seen by as many people as that was. Our experiences of the day, our memories of the day are just so tied up in images of buildings falling and bodies falling.

I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.