Why didn't he say goodbye? I gave myself a bruise. Why didn't he say 'I love you'?

Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.

I regret how much I believed in the future.

It is unrealistic to think you can have an inflexible identity that never has to give or take or make compromises.

I'm not better than anyone, and I'm not trying to convince people to live by my standards of what's right. I'm trying to convince them to live by their own.

We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.

....Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.