I zipped myself all the way into the sleeping bag of myself, not because I was hurt, and not because I had broken something, but because they were cracking up.

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?

I used to think that humor was the only way to appreciate how wonderful and terrible the world is, to celebrate how big life is. But now I think the opposite. Humor is a way of shrinking from that wonderful and terrible world.

We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.

Since the world has changed so much, the same values don't lead to the same choices anymore.

It is my great hope that our paths, however long and winding, will cross again.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.