The UN special envoy on food called it a 'crime against humanity' to funnel 100 million tons of grain and corn to ethanol when almost a billion people are starving. So what kind of crime is animal agriculture, which uses 756 million tons of grain and corn per year, much more than enough to adequately feed the 1.4 billion human who are living in dire poverty?

...he was leaving me. I wondered if I should stop him. If I should wrestle him to the ground and force him to love me. I wanted to hold his shoulders down and shout into his face.

I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God.

I don't mind if smiles come at my expense, I'm a small price to pay.

She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.

As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.

She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.