I hate the word "inevitable" because I feel like things don't have to be the way they are.

The Golden Arches are now more widely recognized than the Christian cross.

Most fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people dont seem to care about the fat aspect.

Fast food is popular because it's convenient, it's cheap, and it tastes good. But the real cost of eating fast food never appears on the menu.

Yes, a cheeseburger and fries is probably my favourite meal. But I don't eat ground beef anymore.

There's a real strong link today between soda consumption and obesity among children.

Fast food is inexpensive, convenient, and it tastes good. I'm all in favor of that. My problem is how heavily processed it is - how full of salt, fat, and sugar it is.

What we eat has changed more in the last 40 years than in the previous 40,000. The survival of the current food system depends upon widespread ignorance of how it really operates.

The market is a tool, and a useful one. But the worship of this tool is a hollow faith. Far more important than any tool is what you make with it.

The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers.

Twenty years ago, teenage boys in the United States drank twice as much milk as soda; now they drink twice as much soda as milk.

Smartass Disciple: Master, can you trust this bank to keep your money safe?Master of Stupidity: Well, I can put a bit less distrust on this bank than others.

Pain is pain...Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less.

One of the most important jobs of the youth is to make the elderly happy.

The economy needs a stimulus. We MUST borrow. The notion of debt as a sin or something evil should be reviewed.

There's always some place to go. You don't need workshops, you don't need friends necessarily, you can be befriended by literature itself.

You can't know who you are, as a nation or a people, unless you know where you've been.

I find politicians so desperately boring. I don't trust them and don't believe in them.

This day and your life are God's gift to you - so give thanks and be joyful always.

Then he leaned down, breath warm on my neck as he whispered his next words. "You've wondered if I felt differently about you since your abilities diminished. Let this serve as your answer.

I've always been a mythology lover, and so I took a great deal of inspiration from the tales of various dark gods and popular versions of Hell from the Greeks and the Norse stories.