"The development of a tree depends on where it is planted."

“Better to die than live in sleep.”

“Even very progressive, informed people still get tongue-tied responding to the question, can organic and sustainably raised food still feed the world? A corollary to that question, and one we certainly hear a lot these days, is that genetically modified foods are better for the environment because they use fewer chemicals, which has been thoroughly debunked.”

Source : "Anna Lappé Is Ready to Bust the Food Industry’s Biggest Myths". Interview With Tom Philpott, www.motherjones.com. October 2, 2013.

“Never, if you can possibly help it, write a novel. It is, in the first place, a thoroughly unsocial act. It makes one obnoxious to one's family and to one's friends. One sits about for many weeks, months, even years, in the worst cases, in a state of stupefaction.”

“I haven't even seen you successfully talk to a woman since I've known you, unless of course, you count Alex Riley.”

“Almost all words do have colour and nothing is more pleasant than to utter a pink word and see someone's eyes light up and know it is a pink word for him or her too.”

“We must get rid of all the guns.”

“The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful.”

“Somewhere in my head, a private conviction exists that 'Search is the Process' and 'Discovery the Art Form.”