When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.
Shake the hand that feeds you.
One of the problems is that the US government supports unhealthy food and does very little to support healthy food. I mean, we subsidize high fructose corn syrup. We subsidize hydrogenated corn oil. We do not subsidize organic food. We subsidize four crops that are the building blocks of fast food. And you also have to work on access. We have food deserts in our cities. We know that the distance you live from a supplier of fresh produce is one of the best predictors of your health.
Very simply, we subsidize high-fructose corn syrup in this country, but not carrots. While the surgeon general is raising alarms over the epidemic of obesity, the president is signing farm bills designed to keep the river of cheap corn flowing, guaranteeing that the cheapest calories in the supermarket will continue to be the unhealthiest.
Avoid food products that make health claims. at meals and eat them only at tables. And no, a desk is not a table.
We are not only what we eat, but how we eat, too.
I never had a trial I wanted to have, but I never had trial I wasn't glad I had.
When I tell somebody to do something I'm not going to get a lobbyist calling me the next day to say please don't do that even though it's good for America.
It is not more bigness that should be our goal. We must attempt, rather, to bring people back to. . . the warmth of community, to the worth of individual effort and responsibility. . . and of individuals working together as a community, to better their lives and their children's future.
I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.