Changing my body has given me the ability to do all these amazing things that I never in a million years imagined I could do.

It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty.

An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.

I was 11 when I was molested. It was like a nuclear explosion going off in my life, destroying everything.

If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'

We shouldn't have free speech.

People think that if [their abusive] parent apologizes, he'll turn into the person they needed him to be. He won't. An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.

So you start one person at a time. Change one person, you can change a village.

I made the connection between food and weight, but feeling good or bad was a separate issue.

Too many people don't do things for fear of falling. You'll never get good unless you fall. Experiences and new accomplishments are feelings we should never lose.

I thought being vegan was going to be some really horrible way of life that had no flavor.

We were young and thought we were invincible and we threw ourselves into the gears of history and it ground us up.

If I weren't involved with food, I'd be working in architecture. Design is that critical to me.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.

There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.

A dominant wolf's desire to protect was a strong instinct- Samuel was very dominant. Give him an inch, and he's take over the world- my life, if I let him. Mercy

You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too.

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.