I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.

I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.

It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.

I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food.

Eating a piece of meat, at its most efficient, we could say is like throwing away six times that amount of food every time you eat it because you're recycling all those calories through it. I know a lot of people who came to this issue not through animal welfare but through wastefulness.

Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud.

I did not need to know if he could love me. I needed to know if he could need me.