If people thought about food more like how we think about the environment, a lot of people would be eating differently and the whole system would look a lot different.

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.

We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.

Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.

I never confused what I had with what I was.

We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.

There's nothing good about being certain about things. And I don't think there's any real talent in using language in a manipulative way, with phrases like "tax relief" or "Social Security reform." It's politically clever, but it's also completely disingenuous, and it's not something to aspire to.