The mission of the Smithsonian is to increase the diffusion of knowledge, not the diffusion of junk food.

One must know combinations, one must have a true knowledge of food to be in the moment.

To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak—but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think—nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.

It teaches children that ... they're for sale. They're just a bunch of sardines packed in a bus being sold to an advertiser.

He's part of it, and he doesn't have the courage to stand up to do anything about it.

He's been kind of quiet. That's interesting.