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.

Life was a small negative space cut out of the eternal solidity, and for the first time, it felt precious - not like all of the words that had come to mean nothing, but like the last breath of a drowning victim.

Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.

We shouldn't be intimidated by someone else's idea of perfection if it will prevent us from taking steps we actively want to take.

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

Years were passing through the spaces between moments.

My impression is that staying together as a couple does not correspond to the challenges themselves, but whether the very idea of breaking up is an option on the table. If it is, then some people take it. If it's not, then they will keep working at it. You must know people who were terribly suited who make it work. And there are couples who seem perfectly suited that break up. It's a mystery to everyone.