I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
She wants to know if I love her, that’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.
There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
Our relationship to the environment matters, our relationship to animals matters, and our relationship to culture matters.
Songs are as sad as the listener.
Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
Raising your kids vegetarian is a great way to encourage them to do the opposite of what you want! But the goal is not to have them have the same values that I have. It’s to have them act on their values.
There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.
One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.
If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
Hunting will never feed lots of people; it will always be a hobby.
Words never mean what we want them to mean.
I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree.