"My favorite animal is steak."
— Fran Lebowitz

"Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine."
— James Joyce

"Some hae meat and canna eat,
And some wad eat that want it,
But we hae meat and we can eat,
And sae the Lord be thankit."
— Robert Burns

"If I had thought the beef marrow might be a hell of a lot of work for not much difference, I needn’t have worried. The taste of the marrow is rich, meaty, intense in a nearly-too-much way. In my increasingly depraved state, I could think of nothing at first but that it tasted like really good sex. But there was something more than that, even. What it really tastes like is life, well lived. Of course the cow I got marrow from had a fairly crappy life – lots of crowds and overmedication and bland food that might or might not have been a relative. But deep in his or her bones, there was a capacity for feral joy. I could taste it."
— Julie Powell (Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously)

"Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians--except for the occasional mountain lion steak."
— Ted Nugent

"A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow. "
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"When my daughters were young, I'd walk them past the butcher store, and I'd say, `That used to be a lamb, and that used to be a bird. In our society, it's legal to kill them.' Then I would show them a joint, and say, 'This is an herb that grows in the ground, and you can go to jail for having this, but you can kill an animal.' In this family, we will always live outside the law."
— Chrissie Hynde

"We need a better way to talk about eating animals. We need a way that brings meat to the center of public discussion in the same way it is often at the center of our plates. This doesn't require that we pretend we are going to have a collective agreement. However strong our intuitions are about what's right for us personally and even about what's right for others, we all know in advance that our positions will clash with those of our neighbors. What do we do with that most inevitable reality? Drop the conversation, or find a way to reframe it?"
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Eating Animals)

"Not responding is a response--we are equally responsible for what we don't do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle."
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Eating Animals)