Slow Food unites the pleasure of food with responsibility, sustainability and harmony with nature.

Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as worthy of preserving as a sixteenth-century building.

Taste, like identity, has value only when there are differences.

The quest for slowness, which begins as a simple rebellion against the impoverishment of taste in our lives, makes it possible to rediscover taste.

I believe that he who sows utopia will reap reality.

Any gastronome who is not an environmentalist is stupid, and any environmentalist who is not a gastronome is sad.

..he had trampled her poor, pining heart, and the wound was still raw, even these many years later.

Love is the key to the heart.

A writer's mind is a place where demons kill angels in disguise.

Well, the ancients might not have been very heroic. Most of them were probably like Mother, crouched somewhere trying to work out how to make fake jawbone jewelry that would look like the real thing.

Taste everything, eat nothing.

Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.

I strongly believe in Scouting. ... It's a source of great strength to us.

Wine is earth's answer to the sun.

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

You know, I just don't believe that art is supposed to make sense. I really don't think it's supposed to be analyzed to death. It's left to the listener or looker to get what they can get from it.