Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we eat well.

Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.

The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

Cooking (from scratch) is the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being.

People say they don't have time to cook, yet in the last few years we have found an extra two hours a day for the internet.

Human potential is the ability of a person or humanity to put their theoretical abilities into practice

Mothers are all slightly insane.

Books are like horcruxes--without all the evil--because a piece of the author goes into each one.

People hate to see their vices depicted, but vice is terrible and it should be depicted.

Evil spelled backward is live.

You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves.

I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change.

There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.

After much thought and prayer, I have come to my own personal conclusion that we shouldn't tell people who they can love or who they can marry.