The characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you have to act accordingly.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.

Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises.

In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.

As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

We must believe in free will - we have no choice.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals.

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

Every really new idea looks crazy at first.

Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.

Love is a force.... It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product; it produces.

The nuclear weapons were not useful for the achievement of political objectives.

He [Iggy] started reaching for things around the table, and his hand landed on Total. “You’re black.” “I prefer canine-American,” said Total.

Its not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.

Marriage is the process by which a woman deprives herself of an escort.

The guilt of a government is the crime of a whole country.

Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.

Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here.