I wrote a children’s book because children have the most open minds. They are the people who really want to learn. Mark Kurlansky Read Quote
Adults have pretty much made up their minds – they like you to the extent that you confirm what they already believe. Mark Kurlansky Read Quote
Environmentalists aren’t nearly sensitive enough to the fact that they are messing around with struggling people and their livelihoods. They forget that the fishermen are the people with the most immediate vested interest in having a healthy sea. Mark Kurlansky Read Quote
What you seem to find when you get into this biography business is that people tend to have an image of themselves that they want to project, and they want to color statements by this image. Mark Kurlansky Read Quote
You could be a locavore in Florida or southern California. But I tried that. It was really limiting. Mark Kurlansky Read Quote
People in America think of it as a sad and downtrodden place, and I guess it could be, but it’s not because that’s not who Cubans are. In Cuba, you get a good story every day you go out walking. People are so funny. Mark Kurlansky Read Quote
As with wine, geography affects the flavor. Oysters are usually named for a locale. Mark Kurlansky Read Quote
