The plain fact is that we are starving people, not deliberately in the sense that we want them to die, but wilfully in the sense that we prefer their death to our own inconvenience.

I think the rapidly growing tendency to regard animals as born for nothing except slavery to so-called humanity absolutely disgusting.

I wonder how long it would take for anyone to notice if I just stopped talking.

You’re my wife, Suki. That gives me every right.

With luck, a writer capable of producing both Slouching Towards Kalamazoo and The Blood of the Lamb will not remain unappreciated for long.

I'm still working for the government.

Gather the shards of your courage. Patch together what resolve you can. We'll find this thing - and kill it.

It is astonishingly beautiful and interesting, how thought is absent when you have an insight. Thought cannot have an insight.

Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.

Religious people ... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too often, they will not extend that spirit to our fellow creatures.

Actors were the first people to accept me.

Like most Americans, I feel disgusted when we see people make decisions based on party politics rather than a solution that is best for the country.