I think that if everyone did at least embrace a more plant-centered diet, it would improve public health.

What makes the farmers market such a special place is that you are actually creating community around food.

Given that it takes up to 16 pounds of grain to produce one pound of meat, I think we can also go a long way toward ending hunger and saving the environment as well.

I don't necessarily think veganism is going to save the world.

Given that I'm from the South, I wanted to do something to address that. I have been focusing more energy and resources on addressing those issues.

I'm in San Francisco because of the energy, the ideas, and the fact that this is a great place for me to land. When I'm traveling and working nationally, I love coming back here.

Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.

Do not be afraid that joy will make the pain worse; it is needed like the air we breathe.

I am very happy in second-hand bookshops; would a gardener not be happy in a garden?

The whole white world is ours.

My favorite food is deep-fried ravioli. I always get that every year.

When we use the word domestic [terrorism], we discount its actual impact as political terrorism, which is, of course, political violence meant to impact an audience outside of the immediate victims.

Plough not the seas, sow not the sands,Leave off your idle pain;Seek other mistress for your minds,Love's service is in vain.

Sometimes a question can hurt more than an answer.

There are few sensations more painful, than, in the midst of deep grief, to know that the season which we have always associated with mirth and rejoicing is at hand.

How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf.