“Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.”

“Only if some microorganism doesn't attack these tender hothouse plants and eat away at their roots, only if they don't rot! And that can happen with pineapples! Oh, yes, indeed it can!”

Mikhail Bulgakov book The Master and Margarita

“Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.”

Michael Pollan (1955) American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism

“In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot on the ground.”

Samuel Madden (1686–1765) Irish writer

“You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.”

Dennis Potter (1935–1994) English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist

“My advice to you, if you want to lose a bit of weight: don't eat anything that comes in a bucket. Buckets are the kitchen utensils of the farmyard.”

Billy Connolly (1942) British comedian

“A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.”

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author

“I won't eat anything green.”

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist

“A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

“Don't eat fruits or nuts. You are what you eat.”

Jim Davis (1945) American cartoonist and creator of Garfield