I didn't feel empty. I wished I'd felt empty. ... I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.

I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything

I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something.

Even if I don't like what I am, I know what I am. My children like what they are, but they don't know what they are. So tell me which is worse.

His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.

Something having been done just about everywhere just about always is no kind of justification for doing it now.

Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming.