“There is something reassuring about the toilets. Bodily functions at least remain democratic. Everybody shits.”
“If I had bodily functions, I think I would have peed my pants.”
“Everybody deserves to have something good in their life. At least once”
“You are four years old. You have to shit in the toilet. This is not one of those negotiations where we’ll go back and forth and find a middle ground. This ends with you shitting in a toilet.”
“I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else.”
“Centuries of secularism have failed to transform eating into something strictly utilitarian. Food is still treated with reverence...To eat is still something more than to maintain bodily functions. People may not understand what that 'something more' is, but they nonetheless desire to celebrate it. They are still hungry and thirsty for sacramental life.”