“Learn, he says, that there will be hours, daysand months ahead of feeling absolutely terribleand nothing can change that; neither newgirlfriends, health professionals, changes of diet, dope, humility, orGod. ”

“It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.”

“What can you do? There's the rub. The most important take-home message with diet and health is that anyone who ever expresses anything with certainty is basically wrong, because the evidence for cause and effect in this area is almost always weak and circumstantial, and changing an individual person's diet may not even be where the action is.”

“I'd have to say no, people don't change, but they can learn to behave differently.”

“Delete nothing. Move nothing. Change nothing. Learn everything.”

“A person could stop a specific thing, but they couldn’t stop change in general. Rivers can’t run backward. Yet, he felt there must be an alternative, neither willfulness nor resignation. He couldn’t put words to it. All he knew was, neither of them had changed their minds and neither of them could find anything more to say.”