I asked her, "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" She looked at her watch and said, "I'm optimistic." "Then I have some bad news for you, because humans are going to destroy each others as soon as it becomes easy enough to, which will be very soon." "Why do beautiful songs make you sad?" "Because they aren't true." "Never?" "Nothing is beautiful and true." She smiled, but in a way that wasn't just happy, and said, "You sound just like Dad.

Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?

Consumers are going to have get used to eating less meat - to paying more for better quality meat and eating significantly less of it.

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

One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second

The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.

But what she was really trying to say was this: I like music better than anything in the world, after you.