“A puritan is such a one as loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbor with all his heart.”

T’s [King James Bible] subject is majesty, not tyranny, and it’s political purpose was unifying and enfolding, to elide the kingliness of God with the godliness of kings

To make royal power and divine glory into one invisible garment which could be wrapped around the nation as a whole.

The human being makes room for and makes use of those organisms that are not him.

Fast Food Nation is witness to the rigour and seriousness of the best American journalism, readable, reliable and extremely carefully done.

The essence of a field is that the cultural accommodates the natural there.

I shall certainly never do that again. He employs a long, cold burn, a quiet and impassioned accumulation of detail, with calm, wit and clarity.

In that way the field is a poem to symbiosis, and a human contract with the natural.

The field is a halfway house, halfway between the detail of those intimately known places and the ignorance of a landscape view

Eric Schlosser’s book on the economy and strategies of the fast-food business should be read by anyone who likes to take their children to fast-food restaurants.