“French women typically think about good things to eat. American women typically worry about bad things to eat.”

“French women don't eat Wonder Bread.”

“Others will, typically, encourage you to be typical. It makes them feel better about their typicalness.”

“Americans love to hear good things about their bad habits.”

“That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive idea-destructive not just the pleasure of eating, which would be bad enough, but paradoxically of our health as well. Indeed, no people on earth worry more about the health consequences of their food choices than we Americans-and no people suffer from as many diet-related problems. We are becoming a nation of orthorexics: people with an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating.”

“Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.”