“The King is in his Tower, eating bread and honey. The Breakers in the basement, making all the money.”
“A novel rough draft is like bread dough; you need to beat the crap out of it for it to rise.”
“To eat communion bread will be to taste the world's indifference, and to immerse myself in nothingness.”
“Most of the seven billion people in this world suffer from malnutrition. Half do not have enough to eat and the rest of us eat too much.”
“It goes on, he thought. The internecine hate. Perhaps the seeds are there, in that. They will eat one another at last, and leave the rest of us here and there in the world, still alive. Still enough of us once more to build and hope and make a few simple plans.”