I believed him. I was not stupid. I was his wife.

She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.

She wrote, I wish I could be a girl again, with a chance to live my life again. I have suffered so much more than I needed to. And the joys I have felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently.

Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated room is not very healthy. Beyond deformities, eye damage, blindness, bacterial infections of bones, slipped vertebrae, paralysis, internal bleeding, anemia, slipped tendons, twisted lower legs and necks, respiratory diseases, and weakened immune systems are frequent and long-standing problems on factory farms.

The Eskimos have four hundred words for snow, and the Jewshave four hundred for schmuck.

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

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