"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 usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends' houses. I like places where there's stuff going on that you can lift your eyes, see something interesting, overhear a conversation."

"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."

"There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food, but with the price of food."

"The simplest truths often reveal that a single moment of clarity can change a lifetime."

"To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living."

"The silent observer understands that a single moment of clarity can change a lifetime."

"Every sunset is a reminder that every challenge is an invitation to grow stronger."