“But hunger, like food, comes in many shapes and colors.”
“I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. ”
“Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.”
“What they discovered was that not only fish, but spiders and many insects can taste their food by the structures that are most likely to first come in contact with the food. And this in many invertebrate species turns out to be the feet.”
“Hunger of the heart is much stronger than hunger for food.”
“These shells are just like the people of the world, Okachan,' Manjiro said, speaking not just to his mother, but to everyone. 'They come from many places. They come in many different colors and sizes. But they are all beautiful.”