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The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.

I live my life as healthy and consciously as I can.

I worry about the very pernicious way we elevate and separate ourselves from other beasts, the way we rationalize our comfort and ease, our worship of the self, as healthy. It's enticing, but with a terrible taint of evil.

I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that everything you do isn't about your own creature comforts or satisfying your own appetites. Some of it has to be directed outward and there is a huge satisfaction in that.

I think one can achieve a very pleasant lifestyle by treating human beings, fellow human beings, very well.

My idea of good living is not about eating high on the hog. Rather, to me, good living means understanding how food connects us to the earth.

It's almost as if we each have a vampire inside us. Controlling that beast, that dark side, is what fascinates me.

I just want to be healthy and happy. I don't want to hurt anybody or make them mad. If that's a philosophy then that's my philosophy.