One cannot get to animal rights by trampling on human rights.

Humans have "dominion" over animals. But that "dominion" (radah in Hebrew) does not mean despotism, rather we are set over creation to care for what God has made and to treasure God's own treasures.

It is an unfortunate fact that those people who are most eloquent in their demand for the conservation of animals are often those most eager to violate animal life at the first opportunity.

If tomorrow we decided only to desist from killing and causing suffering for sport and entertainment, the world would be significantly better for animals. Even this we have failed to achieve.

I would happily, sometimes more than happily, have vacated my role as an animal theologian, if there were others prepared to take my place.

I fear theology is--in the words attributed to William Temple--"still in its infancy" when it comes to animals.

There are only two ways to deal with the media: either elect to take the Buddha's vow of eternal silence, or make one's voice known as responsibly as one humanly can, and take the consequences.

To be vulnerable to negative emotion is to lack a personal commitment to kingdom principles

God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.

My kids, that's my biggest accomplishment. Being able to have talented and smart kids. They are doing something I didn't do. I didn't finish school so...that's my biggest accomplishment.

Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.

Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution.

I think women get labeled a lot as being crazy. But I think men make us crazy.

...they watched the humans disappear. They watched them dissolve, like moving tablets in the humid air.

Bring me a cup of tea and the 'Times.'

I'm intelligent enough and capable enough to understand that you are ignorant, pompous, egotistical, cretin. I'm going to crush you on here because I'm tired of hearing about it.

She loved him so much she concealed his name in many phrases, the inner meanings known only to her.