A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet.

Cheese has always been a food that both sophisticated and simple humans love.

I honestly believe that everything I know about the writing of non-fiction (or writing) could be engraved on the head of a pin with a garden hoe.

I cannot count the good people I know who to my mind would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers.

... living out of sight of any shore does rich and powerfully strange things to humans.

War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist

old age is more bearable if it can be helped by an early acceptance of being loved and of loving.