It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective.

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.

No guest rooms.” I shake my head resolutely. “I want to be in a room room. A lived-in room.

People lie to cover their mistakes, and then make even worse ones to cover their lies.

I said I fell down. Ah. The ground bloodied your nose, split yer lip, and punched ye in th' eye, all at once.I said I don't want to talk about it.

Force is all-conquering but its victories are short-lived.

Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.

Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust.

Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference.

In the search [of a deal], we adopt the same attitude one might find appropriate in looking for a spouse: It pays to be active, interested, and open-minded, but it does not pay to be in a hurry.

I feel much more comfortable in politics than I did in book writing. Book writing is so hard. Politics felt easy compared to that.