Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale.

Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.

It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.

I will be the last person to condemn ALF [the Animal Liberation Front].

I'd go to work early, before anyone got there, and I would just kill the animals myself...I must have killed a thousand of them, sometimes dozens every day.

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all animals.

Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by.

Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.

Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses.

Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.

If you study of scriptures, you find sacredness of life.

In the best interest of profession, a writer should sometimes refrain from writing.

We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.

Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.

We don't have a unitary society anymore, you know; it's very fragmented. I look up and down my block in Silverlake and there is a different universe in every house.

We only think when we are confronted with problems.

Pretty is smarter than you think

Samuel Johnson Is Indignant:that Scotland has so few trees.

Not that they were there to have fun—although with Kingsley Martin around, fun was never far from the agenda.

I started making music professionally when I was 14.