When you look up 'hilarious' in the dictionary, there's a picture of you.

The factory farm has succeeded by divorcing people from their food, eliminating farmers, and ruling agriculture by corporate fiat.

There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is the kind that adds, building with clay, piling it on. The way I write novels is to keep piling on and piling on and piling on.

The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering.

... the man took my passport and asked me the purpose of my visit, I wrote in my daybook, 'To mourn,' and then, 'To try to live,' he gave me a look and asked if I would consider that business or pleasure, I wrote, 'Neither.' 'For how long do you plan to mourn and try to live?' I wrote, 'For the rest of my life.

In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you've lost, what can you say about that?

Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something. Being good.