The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening.

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.

The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.

His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.

To feel alone is to be alone.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.

Now we're going to save a bunch of dirty meatsacks from a bunch of dirty cannibals? Why don't we rescue some orphaned kittens and put food out for stray puppies while we're at it?

If you desire a joyful heart, dance daily.

Regret is a waste of time.

Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age.

The only way to change is by changing your understanding.

Of course, personally, I think it'd be tacky to wear diamonds before I'm forty.

My God...it can think.

Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.

On the square...I'm not riffin' like Andy Griffith, Just fed up, goin' head up, with competition.