“It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene.”

“Human hunger birthed the Civ'lize, but human hunger killed it too.”

“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”

“Hunger is not a bunker or a bed frame, otherwise it could be measured. Hunger is not an object.”

“Hunger not to have, but to be”

“Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.”

“Sometimes I think we Americans are the loneliest people in the world. To be sure, we hunger for the power of affection, the self-acceptance that gives life. It is the oldest and strongest hunger in the world. But hungering is not enough.”

“Hunger is the best seasoning.”

“Hunger is good discipline.”

“Hunger is no respecter of disaster.”