"Maybe one day the world will change, that we'll be in a luxurious position of being able to debate whether or not it's inherently wrong to eat animals, but the question doesn't matter right now."

"I'm interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I'm not so interested in the comforting kind of religion."

"The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed."

"The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way to care about things, but also not to alienate yourself from the rest of the world. But it's so much more alienating than vegetarianism."

"It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art."

"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."

"I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry."

"Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless."