Tobias Wolff Quote

Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write.

I am Not, but the Universe is my Self.

In the midst of battle, you need something versatile to keep your focus

Your limits are somewhere up there, waiting for you to reach beyond infinity.

Rationally, factory farming is so obviously wrong, in so many ways. In all of my reading and conversations, I've yet to find a credible defense of it. But food is not rational. Food is culture, habit,...

Our response to the factory farm is ultimately a test of how we respond to the powerless, to the most distant, to the voiceless - it is a test of how we act when no one is forcing us to act one way or...

Yet it is also a tonic and an antidote to dullness to be with the Serbs. They possess the irresponsible gaiety that we traditionally connect with the Irish, with whom they have often been compared. Ot...

We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortur...