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.

I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.

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

Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something. Being good.

Factory farming, of course, does not cause all the world's problems, but is is remarkable just how many of them intersect there.

I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something.

I hated myself for going, why couldn't I be the kind of person who stays?