Health and disease are the same thing—vital action intended to preserve, maintain, and protect the body. There is no more reason for treating disease than there is for treating health.

Surgeons can cut out everything except cause.

General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.

It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.

Although man has included meat in his diet for thousands of years, his anatomy and physiology, and the chemistry of his digestive juices, are still unmistakably those of a frugivorous animal.

There is not a single argument nor a single fact that can be offered in favour of flesh eating that cannot be offered, with equal strength, in favour of cannibalism.

Life should be built on the conservation of energy.

Cutting out bad habits is far more effective than cutting out organs.

Moderation is the only rule of a healthful life. This means moderation in all things wholesome.

"Science" is pedantic, arrogant, esoteric and often insane.

There are but a few blood purifiers and these are all in the body. We know them as the liver, kidneys, lungs, colon, and a few glands.

Dewey sent him, I thought, when I saw those eyes.

Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts.

Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror

When I start writing, my unconscious, my conflicts, my thoughts all start to come up. So for me, writing is an exploration. I never know how my stories will end.

If I don't have a deadline, I could fuss around with stuff for forever.

In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation taste-blind.

Life punishes those who come too late.

I grew up in a house where there were no taboos, so it came originally from a pretty innocent place, where I was shocked at the things that shocked people.

We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.

We are organizing Jewry for its coming destiny.