Dogs are wonderful, and in many ways unique. But they are remarkably unremarkable in their intellectual and experiential capacities. Pigs are every bit as intelligent and feeling, by any sensible definition of the words. They can't hop into the back of a Volvo, but they can fetch, run and play, be mischievous, and reciprocate affection. So why don't they get to curl up by the fire? Why can't they at least be spared being tossed on the fire?

[S]o if the device of the person in the ambulance detected the device of the person he loved the most, or the person who loved him the most, and the person in the ambulance was really badly hurt, and might even die, the ambulance could flash GOODBYE! I LOVE YOU! GOODBYE! I LOVE YOU!

It is unrealistic to think you can have an inflexible identity that never has to give or take or make compromises.

It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns.

To feel alone is to be alone.

I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything

The animals are those things that God likes but doesn't love.