“When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.”

“When people talk too fast the content becomes as superfluous as the speed.”

“If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.”

“We can’t save the world without food. Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.”

“It's not easy to find a topic. Talking of home is painful. Talking of the present unbearable.”

“It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.”

“When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.”

“When no food is given to the ear,
Then let a little be given to the stomach.”

“When the mind is busy, the stomach cannot complain of hunger too.”

“If the implication of his remarks is that we should sit down and talk with Mr. Adams and the Provisional IRA, I can say only that that would turn my stomach and those of most hon. Members; we will not do it. If and when there is a total ending of violence, and if and when that ending of violence is established for a significant time, we shall talk to all the constitutional parties that have people elected in their names. I will not talk to people who murder indiscriminately.”