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"I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good."
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"I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex."
"There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick."
"Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him."
"I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food."
"Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before."
"In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn."
"Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can."
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"I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can."
"I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good."
"Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing about, but writing is what you are doing."
"I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down."
"Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not."
"In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise."
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