“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.

no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.

Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.

The whole world will tell them what’s wrong with them–out loud and often.

These are great/courageous ideas which time has come! Liberation of animals is REVOLUTION – not elegant performance/ intellectual competition.

The world is changing. You must make your own life outside this home.

He who labors diligently need never despair.

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end.