I started carrying blank books like this one around, which I would fill with all the things I couldn't say.

Memories are small prayers to God, if we believed in that sort of thing.

Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming.

I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do. They show us that conversations are possible across distances.

The end of the world has come often, and continues to come.

The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.

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.