If nothing matters, there's nothing to save.

There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming, it systematically forces tens of billions of animals to suffer in ways that would be illegal if they were dogs, it is a decisive factor in the development of swine and avian flus, and so on.

Something having been done just about everywhere just about always is no kind of justification for doing it now.

Even if I don't like what I am, I know what I am. My children like what they are, but they don't know what they are. So tell me which is worse.

In the end, everyone loses everyone.

We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.

I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.