What kind of world would we create if three times a day we activated our compassion and reason as we sat down to eat, if we had the moral imagination and the pragmatic will to change our most fundamental act of consumption?

Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.

I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.

Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.

What kind of world would we create if three times a day we activated our compassion and reason as we sat down to eat, if we had the moral imagination and the pragmatic will to change our most fundamental act of consumption?

I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

Life was a small negative space cut out of the eternal solidity, and for the first time, it felt precious - not like all of the words that had come to mean nothing, but like the last breath of a drowning victim.