I think the evidence is pretty clear. If you look at various characteristics of carnivores versus herbivores, it doesn't take a genius to see where humans line up.

When we kill animals to eat them they end up killing us because their flesh...was never intended for human beings, who are naturally herbivores.

Writers are the most tormented of all the different categories of artists that are out there in the world.

Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.

Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable.

Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage.

I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.

A sympathetic look always makes me feel sorry for myself.

Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise.

When you know who you are and what you stand for, you stand in wisdom.

Every individual is a center for the manifestation of a certain force. This force has been stored up as the resultant of our previous works, and each one of us is born with this force at our back.

It's much easier to stay out of trouble now than to get out of trouble later.