Veganism has given me a higher level of awareness and spirituality, primarily because the energy associated with eating has shifted to other areas. … If you're violent to yourself by putting [harmful] things into your body that violate its spirit, it will be difficult not to perpetuate that [violence] onto someone else.
A King Among Men, interview with Jill Howard Church in Vegetarian Times, October 1995, Issue 218, p. 128.