People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying.

That’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there.

I'm interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I'm not so interested in the comforting kind of religion.

You can make great meals without meat that are, of course, much more healthy for the same price, but it takes a process of reeducation, just because Americans aren't familiar with how to cook vegetables anymore.

Find a printer paper and imagine a full-grown bird shaped something like a football with legs standing on it. Imagine 33,000 of these rectangles in a grid. (Broilers are never in cages, and never on multiple levels.) Now enclose the grid with windowless walls and put a ceiling on top. Run in automated (drug-laced) feed, water, heating, and ventilation systems. This is a farm.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember