Most people just want to be left in peace to eat their bacon, not realising that there is no peace behind bacon.

Addiction brings apathy. Break the apathy, and you break the addiction.

Eden Fruitarianism is the solution to the dilemma of the screaming carrot.

How many would protest if restaurants began serving puppy and kitten flesh instead of calves? Robins instead of hens? Squirrels instead of pigs?

Choose empathy over apathy.

You know the world has gone mad when those who have enlightened, compassionate views and future visions, are accused of borderline insanity, ridiculed and criticised for thinking positively.

The sooner we wake up and realise that we have a moral duty to guide and protect this planet, the sooner things will improve for every form of life on this planet.

Seen from the point of view of a lie, the truth is often touted as radical.

I guess you just have to trust your kids, trust that their innate interest in life will win out in the end, don’t you think?

The object of your desire is not an object.

It took him (Washington) more than a year to gain control over his own aggressive instincts.

The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that I love about music.

But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel — independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic.

Yeah. When you want what's real and you try to find that in high school, you might as well be looking for a mossy rock beside a babbling brook on the corner of Sixth and Pine in downtown Seattle.

Too low they build who build below the skies.

The spending of our tax dollars by the Pentagon represents the greatest social disease of our country; I call it Pentagonorrhea.

The school is a political prize of the highest importance. It cannot be deprived of its political character as long as it remains a public and compulsory institution.

I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.