“When you ignore your belly, you become homeless. You spend your life trying to erase your own existence. Apologizing for yourself. Feeling like a ghost. Eating to take up space, eating to give yourself the feeling that you have weight here, you belong here, you are allowed to be yourself -- but never quite believing it because you don't sense yourself directly.” GivingTryingBelieveFeelingsSpaceExistenceEatingWeightGhostBeing YourselfApologizingHomelessBellyNever QuitErase Author:Geneen Roth
“Work before eating, rest after eating. Eat not ravenously, filling the mouth gulp after gulp without breathing space.” SpaceEatingMouthsBreathingFillingBreathing Space Author:Maimonides
“Considering you are pretty much like this the whole time whether you're onstage, whether you're in the van, whether you're eating, whether you're in the hotel room. So everyone has their moments and you kind of learn to respect people's space when they're not in a good mood.” PeopleKindWholeMomentsSpaceRoomsEatingMoodHotelConsideringVansHotel RoomsGood MoodRespect People Author:Barry Privett
“I actually saw a kid and went home and drew him. I don't even know who he was. I was buying a TV set in Circuit City. I was looking at this kid and he was kind of standing there, staring off into space. Kids are pretty chubby nowadays because of all the fast-food places. I grew up eating fast food but now everything is double beef and double cheese. So there are a lot of these chubby boys with long, baggy shorts.” KnowsKindLongHomeKidsSpaceCitiesBoysSawsTvsGrewEatingGrew UpStandingStaringBuyingCheeseBeefCircuitsFast FoodShortsStanding ThereEating Fast Food Author:Mike Judge
“And yet I do love a kind of light, melody, fragrance, food, embracement when I love my God; for He is the light, the melody, the fragrance, the food, the embracement of my inner self - there where is a brillance that space cannot contain, a sound that time cannot carry away, a perfume that no breeze disperses, a taste undimisnished by eating, a clinging together that no saiety will sunder. This is what I love when I love my God.” KindSelfLightTogetherSoundSpaceTasteEatingMelodyPerfumeBreezeFragranceInner SelfClinging Author:Saint Augustine
“A lot of narrative films leave you no space for anything else but eating popcorn. I want to go in the complete opposite direction. I have to evacuate all psychology, to be less a protagonist and more a presence.” WantFilmSpacePsychologyEatingOppositesNarrativeProtagonistsPopcornComplete Opposites Author:Elia Suleiman
“When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the 'Eventocracy.' All this flashy 'art-fair art' and those highly produced space-eating spectacles and installations wow you for a minute until you move on to the next adrenaline event.” WorldArtMovingNextSpaceOne ThingMinutesMissingEventsEatingFairsWowHypeAdrenalineArt WorldSpectaclesFlashyInstallationCurator Author:Jerry Saltz
“So I kept reading, just to stay alive. In fact, I'd read two or three books at the same time, so I wouldn't finish one without being in the middle of another -- anything to stop me from falling into the big, gaping void. You see, books fill the empty spaces. If I'm waiting for a bus, or am eating alone, I can always rely on a book to keep me company. Sometimes I think I like them even more than people. People will let you down in life. They'll disappoint you and hurt you and betray you. But not books. They're better than life.” PeopleIfsThinkingI CanTwoBookSometimesFactsBigsFallThreeReadingWaitingHurtSpaceCompanyAliveMiddleEatingEmptyRelyBusVoidBetrayDisappointStaying AliveEmpty SpaceEating Alone Book:How I Paid for College: A Tale of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theater (reissued) Source: How I Paid for College: A Tale of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theater (reissued)