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.

I wanted so much to have a life. Even just once, even for a second.

The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.

One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second

There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals.

I ran rather than walked, anxious to lose my way. All I wanted was to be unsure.

Oh,' she said. 'I have never seen a Jew before. Can I see his horns?