For breakfast to be called ‘in bed’ instead of ‘on top of a bed,’ the house in which it is about to be eaten has to have at least two rooms (excluding the kitchen); (at least) three, if it has a bathroom.

Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are staring at them that they do not eat as much and as frequently as they seem to.

Death devours not only those who have been cooked by old age; it also feasts on those who are half-cooked and even those who are raw.

We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our food to companies whose owners and employees make a living by exploiting our busyness or laziness and our innate hunger to continue living.

It is childish to eat primarily or only to please your tongue.

A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.

Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos.