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.

Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?

I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.

I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.

A careless way of sauntering across the earth and breaking open its treasures, a terrible dependency on sucking out the world's best juices for ourselves-these may also be our enemies. The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.

It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.

A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn't do.