“Nobody lay awake at night wondering if the wheat they'd raised was truly happy and fulfilled being made into bread.”

“Success to me is being happy, truly fulfilled, being proud of myself, and doing different things all the time.”

“We had used up all of our time. And I wondered if that made any difference to my mother then, as she lay awake in the hospital those last few nights of her life: we had used up all of our time.”

“Lay me down like a stone oh God, and raise me up like a new bread".”

“The man is interested in the sowing of wheat in the field; the woman in making the bread.”

“Men can, of course, be stirred into life by being dressed up in uniforms and made to blare out chants of war. It must be confessed that this is one way for men to break bread with comrades and to find what they are seeking, which is a sense of something universal, of self-fulfillment. But of this bread men die.”