And consider: it is loss to which everything flows, absence in which everything flowers

If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's also the environmental argument for it.

A hot wind was blowing around my head, the strands of my hair lifting and swirling in it, like ink spilled in water.

How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.

You're sad because you're sad. It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical. Go see a shrink or take a pill, or hug your sadness like an eyeless doll you need to sleep. Well, all children are sad but some get over it. Count your blessings. Better than that, buy a hat. Buy a coat or a pet. Take up dancing to forget.

We are very short on organs, and the pig solution is probably a lot better than the human clone solution - though maybe not for the pigs.

Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to find out what everyone else takes for granted.