Factory farmers talk about their desire to feed the world. That's not what they're doing. They're feeding the world with really, really cheap stuff.

However much we obfuscate or ignore it, we know that the factory farm is inhumane in the deepest sense of the word. And we know that there is something that matters in a deep way about the lives we create for the living beings most within our power. Our response to the factory farm is ultimately a test of how we respond to the powerless, to the most distant, to the voiceless--it is a test of how we act when no one is forcing us to act one way or another.

The images of his infinite pasts and infinite futures washed over him as he waited, paralyzed, in the present.

Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.

I'm not better than anyone, and I'm not trying to convince people to live by my standards of what's right. I'm trying to convince them to live by their own.

If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.

Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was