“The prospect of those visiting hours, for which the starvation artist naturally yearned, since they were the meaning of his life, also made him shudder.”  A Hunger Artist

“I understand that in our work - doesn't matter whether it's acting or writing ." Uncle Vanya

“Each year the US population spends more money on diets than the amount needed to feed all the hungry people in the rest of the world.” Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

If your ultimate and highest goal is to have life made easy and sociable, then never become involved with Christianity, shun it, because it wants the very opposite; it wants to make your life difficult and to do this by making you alone before God. No earnest person, therefore, wearies of tracking down the illusions, because insofar as he is a thinking person he fears most to be in error, however cozy the arrangement is, however good the company—and as a Christian he fears most to be lost without knowing it—however flattering, however splendid the surroundings and the company are. Works of Love