“Cooking and eating were growing to irritate her with their relentless necessity.”
“I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.”
“Even needing to get to Angel, we couldn’t forget the basic necessity of eating.”
“The arts (painting, poetry, etc.) are not just these. Eating, drinking, walking are also arts; every act is an art.”
“Through eons of living in a land so poor there was little to eat but oats, they had as usual converted necessity into a virtue, and insisted that they liked the stuff.”