“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.

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

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.

If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.

I count him lost, who is lost to shame.

Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.

I don’t really watch a lot of TV, to be honest. I’m more of a movie girl, or I Netflix stuff.

The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.

There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

There was a reason in the ’50s when communism was bubbling that there were a million zombie movies. Because that is the direct allocation.