"For the first time, on this shore, I enjoyed the sweetness of food. When Zorbas lit a fire between two hearthstones and cooked and then we began to eat and drink and the conversation got animated, I felt that eating was a spiritual function and that the meat, the bread and the wine were the raw materials of the spirit." (pg. 90) "For a long while we sat silently around the brazier. I was once again certain that happiness is a simple and frugal thing – a glass of wine, a chestnut, a humble brazier, the sound of the sea; nothing else. The only thing necessary, to feel all this is happiness, is a simple and frugal heart." (pg. 105)