What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?

I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else.

If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.

In the past seven years of love-making he had heard the words "I love you" so many times: from the mouths of widows and children, from prostitutes, family friends, travelers, and adulterous wives. Women said "I love you" without his ever speaking. "The more you love someone," he came to think, "the harder it is to tell them." It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say "I love you".

Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.

Try to live so that you can always tell the truth.

Look, taste is clearly the crudest of our senses: this is scientifically, objectively factual. It is less nuanced. Eyesight is extraordinary - hearing, touch. I find people who devote their whole lives to taste a little strange.