We've made science experiments of ourselves and our children.
I'm interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I'm not so...
Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its...
We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch...
There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use...
Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up and you don't want...
I usually write away from home in coffee shops on trains on planes in...
Jews have a special relationship to books and the Haggadah has been...
Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny I'll be funny...
The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat...
Food is not rational. Food is culture habit craving and identity.
There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad...
I know lots and lots and lots of vegetarians who think it's perfectly all...
My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who...
We need a better way to talk about eating animals a way that doesn't ignore...
The purpose of the Seder to my mind is to inspire conversations with your...
I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help...
Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It's...
Words are capable of making experience more vivid and also of organizing it....
I first became a vegetarian when I was nine in response to an argument made...
The question I've come to think is not what inspires one to change but...
When it comes to meat change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a...
Maybe one day the world will change that we'll be in a luxurious position of...
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
