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.

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.

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

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.

An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.

A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle...

The best way to be unique and set ourselves apart from Society is to create. Use your imagination and apply action towards it.

Their lips were too thin to ask forgiveness, and their minds too mean to understand love.

There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket.

Cuddle up. Rain always stops. It always stops. It always does.

My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups.

Very few of the so-called liberals are open-minded.... They shout you down and won't let you speak if you disagree with them.

My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom.