Kevin Wagoner

“The American Home Cook Book proposed cooking eels with a little parsley. Another suggested terrapin turtles boiled with salt.”
― Daniel Stone, The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats

“When this country asks me where I’m from, they aren’t asking for the city on my birth certificate, but whose earth is in my blood.”
― Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night

“You’ve got East Texas, which is Creole, with the field greens and okra. In West Texas you have the Hispanic influence and the chiles. North Texas, you had the cattle drives. In the south and the Gulf, I wanted to give the sense of a true Southern fishing camp. Then in Central Texas you have the Czech and German influences.”
― Lawrence Wright, God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State

“The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope.”
― Stephen W. Hawking