Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.

Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?

Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same

Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need

I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it.

What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.