It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns.

Oh, I'd say I like a meal as much as anybody. But I find a certain kind of foodiness silly, gluttonous and embarrassing.

The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering.

She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.

It will never be the case that people won't eat meat. I think it could conceivably be the case one day that people eat very small amounts of it. That it's a special thing, rather than reach for it because it's cheap or reach for it because it's convenient, that it becomes something festive or something celebratory, once a week, and that could actually be achieved on small farms if we really changed our habits.

I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.

She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a child.