Laurie Colwin

Provision as much pure and organic food as you can, and let the rest go by.

We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.

We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

I don't eat cereal actually... Frosted Flakes... that's as close as I can get.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.