“We need grandchildren here,” Pete’s mother said to mewhen we visited. “You don’t get married just to eat and fart.”
“You don’t need to be married to love someone,' Leas said.”
“[T]he world needs us to be as flawed as we are. Everyone here needs to know that to get better. To know that they don’t need to be fixed.”
“You are what you eat is a truism hard to argue with, and yet it is, as a visit to a feedlot suggests, incomplete, for you are what what you eat eats, too. And what we are, or have become, is not just meat but number 2 corn and oil.”
“We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.”
“We don’t sleep to sleep, dammit, any more than we eat to eat . We sleep to dream. We’re amphibians. We live in two elements and we need both." Edward Nesbit”