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

They all attended Hester's church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.

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

In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.

I'm widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I'm not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.

A woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if she couldn't this world would end at once.

The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.