We shouldn't be intimidated by someone else's idea of perfection if it will prevent us from taking steps we actively want to take.

Stories about food are stories about us-our history and our values.

Not responding is a response--we are equally responsible for what we don't do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.

Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn't matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?

There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world.

Love...is the immovability of truth.

You're incredibly beautiful,' I told her, because she was fat, so I thought it would be an especially nice compliment, and also make her like me again, even though I was sexist.