“The aristocrats had to force them to do their jobs. After all, human beings are not badgers. We aren't molded to stoop.”

“...eating is the purest mode of consumption. Our purchases are statements about our social class, our friends, and our beliefs. Buying something as continually necessary as food is an ongoing act of self-definition.”

“Eating connects us to our histories as much as it connects our souls to our bodies, our bodies to the earth.”

“You can’t make someone do something they don’t want to, but if you are kind about it, you can convince them to do the right thing, even if they are uncertain what that is.--Jala, Healer to the House of Soris”

“-So how about you?, I said: what do you do, if you don't mind my asking; -Not at all, he said: I'm into mitosis;-Aren't we all, I said;-”

“Love what you do, Know what you do, Believe in what you do, and Success and Money will always come to You”

“All those stories need different endings——which is possible because it's my life and I do have the privelege of being able to write the story.”