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.

The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed.

Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on, and then you discover the hallway you passed through is papered with the novel you've written.

I started inventing things, and then I couldn't stop, like beavers, which I know about. People think they cut down trees so they can build dams, but in reality it's because their teeth never stop growing, and if they didn't constantly file them down by cutting through all of those trees, their teeth would start to grow into their own faces, which would kill them. That's how my brain was.

It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think.

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

Only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them.