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

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.

I zipped myself all the way into the sleeping bag of myself, not because I was hurt, and not because I had broken something, but because they were cracking up.

I wouldn't want a boy to think I was pretty unless he was the kind of boy who thought I was pretty.

As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.

I saw Herschel and he saw me and we stood next to each other because that is what friends do in the presence of evil or love.

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.