Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others

Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread.

To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things in life afford quite as much satisfaction.

If you care about the animals, actually, organic might not be the best answer because now we have organic feedlots, organic factory farms. If you care about the environment - pesticides, especially - organic is the answer.

People don't eat nutrients, they eat foods, and foods can behave very differently than the nutrients they contain.

Twenty thousand birds moved away from me as one, like a ground-hugging white cloud, clucking softly.

The history of modern nutritionism has been a history of macronutrients at war: protein against carbs; carbs against proteins, and then fats; fats against carbs.