You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Our relationship to the environment matters, our relationship to animals matters, and our relationship to culture matters.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

There are more obese people in the world than starving people. As China and India start to develop our eating habits - and not by accident but because agribusiness is going over there and imposing our habits on them - if the population doesn't increase at all, we'll have to raise twice as many animals as we do.

What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?

I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.

We laughed and laughed, together and separately, out loud and silently, we were determined to ignore whatever needed to be ignored, to build a new world from nothing if nothing in our world could be salvaged, it was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.