~Danica Novgorodoff from SLOW STORM

"I tell you what, gimme blood from the rein, drink from the vine. Or the barrel, or bottle, or wherever the hell it comes from. The way I think of it is: You can gimme a long sleep, satin shoes, and religion when I'm six foot deep."

~Ruldolfo Anaya from BLESS ME, ULTIMA

“’I think most of the things we call evil are not evil at all; it is just that we don’t understand those things and so we call them evil. And we fear evil only because we do not understand it. . . . / Understanding does not come that easy. . .’”

~Jamake Highwater from ANPAO

“You are always grateful and you are always spiteful and you are always saying one thing but doing another, and sometimes I think that you are the most dangerous animals of all.”

~Jamake Highwater from ANPAO

“Sometimes we grow up to be like everyone else, but sometimes we do not. People are always afraid of turning into something unusual, but they must not be afraid. We must be happy with whatever we are becoming. That is the way it is and that is the way it was intended to be.”

~Jamake Highwater from ANPAO

“Old Man said, . . . ‘Ah, it is better to make something than to do nothing. It is better to be something than to be nothing. It is better to know than to not to know. It is better to be than not to be.’”

~Jonathan Safran Foer from EATING ANIMALS

"Before child labor laws, there were businesses that treated their ten-year-old employees well. Society didn't ban child labor because it's impossible to imagine children working in a good environment, but because when you give that much power to a businesses over powerless individuals, it's corrupting. When we walk around think we have a greater right to eat an animal than the animal has a right to live without suffering, it's corrupting. I'm not speculating. This is our reality."

~Jonathan Safran Foer from EATING ANIMALS

"We live in a world in which it's conventional to treat an animal like a hunk of wood and extreme to treat an animal like an animal."

~Jonathan Safran Foer from EATING ANIMALS

"But nature isn't cruel. And neither are the animals in nature that kill and occasionally even torture one another. Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it."