I know lots and lots and lots of vegetarians who think it's perfectly all right to kill animals for food to eat, but don't do it because they think all the ways in which it's done are wrong.

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.

Love yourself and feel the joy of life.

Your mind believes what you tell it, so tell it positive things

You cannot appreciate what you have never experienced. Sadly, full appreciation tends to come only after the experience is past.

I like you. Therefore I will decorate you with qualities you don't have.

A life has to move or it stagnates. Even this life, I think. Every tomorrow ought not to resemble every yesterday.

Since January 1993 there have been 27 other countries not in the EU that have done better than the UK at exporting goods into the single market.

Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron.

I liked my name pronounced by your lips in a grateful, happy accent.

The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency to lower women's self-respect.

If you spend too much time being like everybody else, you decrease your chances of coming up with something different.