Food & Drink Sayings

The human soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

Sleep is the most innocent creature and the most, therefore, defenseless. When it is done, when the night is past, it is gone like a dream.

God made food, the devil made cooks.

Anonymity is a great comfort.

The greatest danger to freedom is an apathetic citizenry.

We are not always what we seem, and there is a great deal of difference between what we are and what we think we are.

The great thing about a man is that he can endure anything.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn't, I would die.

The first condition for immortality is death.

My greatest fear is not death, but oblivion.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. Unless it's bearing a story you told badly.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

The greatest poem is the one that has yet to be written.

The Frost of Death was on the Pane —

The greatest thing an education can give a man is the ability to think for himself.

I'm not interested in being a Beat Generation icon. I'm interested in being a human being.

Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one.

If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever created.

The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness.

My mind is a muddle. I can't write a coherent sentence. I'm going to go eat a cookie.