The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers.

I find that one of the most important things, as a writer, is to just show up - to just stay in the chair and fight through the difficult patches. As long as you're at the desk, and you're willing to fight it out, eventually the right words will come.

I'd been eating fast food all my life without thinking about it. And the more I learned about the subject, the more intrigued I became.

Congress should ban advertising that preys upon children, it should stop subsidizing dead-end jobs, it should pass tougher food safety laws, it should protect American workers from serious harm, it should fight against dangerous concentrations of economic power.

Most fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people dont seem to care about the fat aspect.

Basically, I'm a perpetual student. I start by finding a subject I really don't know very much, but that I'm curious about. I learn about it through books in a library, by doing interviews with people who know a lot about the subject, and by going out on my own and seeing for myself what's happening.

There's a real strong link today between soda consumption and obesity among children.