I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than your normal disposition, and I am always the same thing. Perhaps I am the only person in the world, then, who never becomes sad. Perhaps I am lucky.

Reality Hunger is more than thought-provoking; it's one of the most beautiful books I've read in a long time.

September 11 had such a strong visual component, the most visually documented event in human history. Nothing's ever been seen by as many people as that was. Our experiences of the day, our memories of the day are just so tied up in images of buildings falling and bodies falling.

If people thought about food more like how we think about the environment, a lot of people would be eating differently and the whole system would look a lot different.

The Eskimos have four hundred words for snow, and the Jewshave four hundred for schmuck.

You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.

I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than any other civilization has in human history-but in the name of affordability treats the animals it eats with cruelty so extreme it would be illegal if inflicted on a dog.