Humankind won't find peace as long as we're treating feeling animals as if they were so many blocks of wood.

The logical conclusion to a compassionate and respectful relationship to sentient animals is that we stop eating them.

Anyone who's lived with companion cats or dogs knows that they are unique individuals with their own personalities. I think animals' secret to getting along is that they are not burdened by an ego.

The more we learn, the more questions arise.

People don't like change when it comes to changing their own lifestyle habits.

...stories want to be told. Stories have a power of their own ... you can't write a story until you've felt it. Breathed it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them.

Without empathy, there'd be no harmony in diversity

Europeans don't like to talk about intelligence, and they often pretend their countries don't spy.

I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.

He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.

I probably get one or two days off every five or six weeks.

Each of us has a private Austen.

Life and literature is a question of what one thrills to, and further than that no man shall ever go without putting his foot in a turd.

I am not sexually attracted to women. I would rather sleep with an ugly man than with a woman.