"The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed."

"Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car."

"Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?"

"Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It's almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed."

"Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence."

"What surprises me most about God is that the creator of the universe should want a relationship with me."

"Science may have found a cure for most evils but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings."

"As it turns out, what looks like science sometimes is not."