“Eating wheat, like ice climbing, mountain boarding, and bungee jumping, is an extreme sport. It is the only common food that carries its own long-term mortality rate.”

“The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for 5 seconds and think for 10 minutes.”

“The intension of an analytic concept arises from the abstraction of the common qualities of a group of things.”

“Intrinsic valuation is the value to be found in any uniquely individual object not subject to limitations of those values shared in common with some class of other individuals”

“I'm sorry, Mother. It's just that five days of flying with these characters has made me crawl right to the edge of sanity.' 'I fell over the edge.' Karen said. 'I jumped,' Walter added, 'And I can't seem to climb back up.”

“Allow this poem to carry you beyond yourself, transcending your mortal flesh as you wed yourself with the potentially infinite.”

“Great chefs know it's the appearance of food that counts...but great eaters know its the amount of food that counts”