People who become used to saying little become used to feeling little.

Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.

Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn't matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?

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

These little daily choices that we're so used to thinking are irrelevant are the most important thing we do all day long.

I started carrying blank books like this one around, which I would fill with all the things I couldn't say.

Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.