I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food.

Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.

Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do… I am not a hero, it is true… But I am not a bad person, either.

The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human lives - our lives - dignity.

But I dig Negroes. I dig them all the way.

It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the time?

The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening.