Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.

Because love encompasses everything, nothing is unimportant, including tonight's dinner menu. Think about it for a minute. If you were pure love, the loving parent of all life, how would you want people to eat?

Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.

"Make your plate look like a Christmas tree," I tell people, "mostly green with splashes of other bright colors."

Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.

My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance.

I realize that I'm a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I'll be a little old lady.