And this is what living next to a waterfall is like, Safran. Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be...
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...
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...
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell in a newly found peace after he decided not to eat animals. Kafka recognized that...
She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.
Mesa, adorno de marfil, arcoíris, cebolla, peinado, molusco, Sabbat, violencia, cutícula, melodrama, cuneta, miel, pañuelo... Nada la conmovía. (...) Nada conseguía ser más de lo que era en realidad....
I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
It's nice to believe that when confronted with facts people will just suddenly respond to them but, in fact, most people don't really work like that.
We've made science experiments of ourselves and our children.
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.
When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.
There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
There are more places you haven't heard of then you're heard of!' I loved that
The persistence of the story of animal consent into the contemporary era tells of a human appreciation of the stakes, and a desire to do the right thing.
The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.
Sometimes feelings are like that - not positive, not negative, just a lot.
Maybe it's true that you can use up all of your tears...It was nice to think about, because what I wanted was to be empty.
Just how common do such savageries have to be for a decent person to be unable to overlook them? If you knew that one in one thousand food animals suffered actions like those described above, would yo...
It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the time?
If you want to know who protects you from the people that take without asking, it is the police. If you want to know who protects you from the police, it is the people who take without asking. And ver...