"The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much."

"There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients."

"I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat."

"I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course."

"The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure."

"To speak the truth in a season of deceit is an act of supreme bravery. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call."

"Come to West Virginia and we'll show you how to live... how to treat people. We're open for business. West Virginia is truly on the move."