You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. They must be grafted, cloned.

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.

Mean girls go far in high school. Kind women go far in LIFE.

The greater the volume of thoughts you have to work with, the better the context you can create for developing options and trusting your choices.

Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.

I love the music business very much.

Diversity is, by definition, discrimination. It leads to things like quotas and racial profiling.

I'm lonely and I'm still kind of searching for someone I can have a real connection with.

For many people, there is an almost power to be found in prayer.

I usually play character parts in Hollywood films.

I keep active because I have not announced my retirement, because that is something that takes time and you have to plan it. Plus, it is something that the Dominican people expected.

Email is the greatest thing.