"I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things."

"Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?"

"I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food."

"We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts."

"I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'"

"Do not use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'"

"When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity."

"He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death."