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

I said I kicked a French chicken in the stomach once." "Huh?" "It said, 'Oeuf.'" "What is that?" "It's a joke. Do you want to hear another, or have you already had un oeuf?

People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don't care about animals to the exclusion of people. Caring is not a finite resource and, even more than that, it's like a muscle: the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.

It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think.

Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.

In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and it's very clear who is on which side. But in a book you can do just the opposite. You can use all lower-case words.

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.