Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.

It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and destructive food products should be illegal. We don't need the option of buying children's toys made with lead paint, or aerosols with chlorofluorocarbons, or medicines with unlabeled side effects. And we don't need the option of buying factory-farmed animals.

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".

I wanted so much to have a life. Even just once, even for a second.

When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

Maybe I'll try to be more patient with morons.