There's some heinous fuckery goin' on mon. - Christopher Moore, Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience. - Gary L. Francione

Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered. - James Patterson, Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live - Lin Yutang