“Beauty should be edible, or not at all.”

“Everything here is edible; even I'm edible. But that, dear children, is cannibalism, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies.”

“If it’s not edible, it’s not food. If it’s not wearable, it’s not fashion.”

“Almost anything is edible with a dab of French mustard on it.”

“Hell’s put in a skating rink,” Shane said. “This is actually edible, Eve.”

“Beauty should be around the beautiful.”

“If there is anything beautiful other than absolute beauty, that can only be beautiful as far as it partakes of absolute beauty—and this I should say of everything. …by beauty all things become beautiful. …by greatness only great things become great and greater and greater, and by smallness the less becomes less.”

“Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.”

“Anybody who destroys anything made of stone should be prosecuted. It is not all beautiful, but it took a man all day to make one stone.”

“She was starting to feel a little like a hamburger at a dieters’ convention. Nobody was likely to snack on her, but absolutely everybody noticed she was edible.”