People shouldn't be allowed to get married until it's too late to have kids.

We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore, or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history, but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more strongly we will want to follow our best instincts.

Is there really anyone, besides Rudy Giuliani, who prefers the new Times Square?

i couldn't speak the language of his feelings

Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.

I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness.

Suddenly Yankel was overcome with a fear of dying, stronger than he felt when his parents passed of natural causes, stronger than when his only brother was killed in the flour mill or when his children died, stronger even than when he was a child and it first occurred to him that he must try to understand what it could mean not to be alive -- to be not in darkness, not in unfeeling -- to be not being, not to be.