I'm interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I'm not so interested in the comforting kind of religion.

• There's no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with.
• Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't.
• Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.
• Maybe one day the world will change, that we'll be in a luxurious position of being able to debate whether or not it's inherently wrong to eat animals, but the question doesn't matter right now.
• When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.
• The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed.
• 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 wrong to kill animals for food.
• Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
• Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It's almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.
• I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.