Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts. – Laurence Sterne, 1760
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 Ill show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities. – Charles Bukowski
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 its wrong to kill animals for food. – Jonathan Safran Foer
