What the meat industry figured out is that you don't need healthy animals to make a profit. Sick animals are more profitable... Factory farms calculate how close to death they can keep animals without killing them. That's the business model. How quickly they can be made to grow, how tightly they can be packed, how much or how little can they eat, how sick they can get without dying...We live in a world in which it's conventional to treat an animal like a block of wood.

It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.

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.

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

I've never particularly liked bankers.

I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.

To remember my values, I need to lose certain tastes and find other handles for the memories that they once helped me carry.