A great step toward independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.

‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

Cooking is the most massive rush. It’s like having the most amazing hard-on, with Viagra sprinkled on top of it, and it’s still there twelve hours later.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.

Most vegetarians I ever saw looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.