Food culture in the United States has long been cast as the property of a privileged class. It is nothing of the kind. Culture is the property of a species.

Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people's back yards.

Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

It's terrible to lose somebody, but it's also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that's got to be so much worse.

I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. I crave to be rid of them.

A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.

There are some who'd hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think's been too lucky.