It seems entirely possible to me that horrible things can be going on without us becoming horrible people.

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

I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember

[…] but I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.

Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away (from the animal, our plate, our concern, ourselves) or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something

How beautiful is forgetting! What relief it would be for the world to lose some of its contents.

The word vegetarian, I think, does a disservice because there are a lot of people who care but maybe don't care, or can't care in an ultimate way. If you think about environmentalism, nobody would ask, "Are you an environmentalist or not?" The question doesn't make any sense.