Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.

Gluttony kills more than the sword

I read a lot. I always have, but in those two years I gorged myself on books with a voluptuous, almost erotic gluttony. I would go to the local library and take out as many as I could, and then lock myself in the bedsit and read solidly for a week. I went for old books, the older the better--Tolstoy, Poe, Jacobean tragedies, a dusty translation of Laclos--so that when I finally resurfaced, blinking and dazzled, it took me days to stop thinking in their cool, polished, crystalline rhythms.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.