Pigs eat grass if they are very hungry, but they can't use it as a regular source of food.

I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone.

But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically.

In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery

Pigs prefer to wallow in clean mud, but if nothing else is available, they will frequently wallow in their own urine, giving rise to the notion that they are dirty animals.

Like most North Americans, I'd been raised on the notion that milk is the first food, and everybody must like it because it's so good and so important for growing up and for being healthy.

The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others.

I don't know of any cases where as a result of religious precepts a population have found themselves enjoying less food than they would have if they didn't follow this particular religion.

Knight's disdain for Thoreau was bottomless - 'he had no deep insight into nature'...

Human strength fails, but the divinity within strengthen the soul.

We have to actually choose a name, " Kane murmured above her head. "We can't keep calling him 'baby.' When he's fifteen he might resent it.

Some of my favorite media is the still cartoon that you can sit and study. You can get amazing metaphors across really quickly. I'm in awe of a Charles Schulz.

A person only likes his friend to the degree he or she relates and connects to his character.

The word story is intended to alert the reader to the fact that, however closely the narrative may fit the facts, the fictional process has been at work.

Life is hard and it gets worse and worse and worse.

The development of the individual can be described as a succession of new births at consecutively higher levels.

I thought about making movies. It hit me when I was about 14, 15 years old.

In victory, the hero seeks the glory, not the prey.