“Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.”

“To be 'for animals' is not to be 'against humanity.' To require others to treat animals justly, as their rights require, is not to ask for anything more nor less in their case than in the case of any human to whom just treatment is due. The animal rights movement is a part of, not opposed to, the human rights movement. Attempts to dismiss it as anti human are mere rhetoric.”

“Whom are you?" he asked, for he had attended business college.”

“And people who believe in God think God has put human beings on earth because they think human beings are the best animal, but human beings are just an animal and they will evolve into another animal, and that animal will be cleverer and it will put human beings into a zoo, like we put chimpanzees and gorillas into a zoo. Or human beings will all catch a disease and die out or they will make too much pollution and kill themselves, and then there will only be insects in the world and they will be the best animal.”

“I know what it is to hope and pray so hard that you're sure God will answer your prayer just so you'll stop asking.”

“Sometimes, you have to shot block a friend's prayer because she's asking God to bless an obviously bad dating relationship.”