Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting.

What the meat industry figured out is that you don't need healthy animals to make a profit. Sick animals are more profitable... Factory farms calculate how close to death they can keep animals without killing them. That's the business model. How quickly they can be made to grow, how tightly they can be packed, how much or how little can they eat, how sick they can get without dying...We live in a world in which it's conventional to treat an animal like a block of wood.

My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what's going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am.

And she would say, "Today you believe in God?" And he would say, "Today I believe in love".

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

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

I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story.