Food was celebration, conversation, and nourishment. The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place.

Sometimes we get our hearts broken, only to have the right person come along to mend them.

The wedding vows are a license to be a complete jerk, with full knowledge that the person you married has agreed, no matter how large a horse's ass you are, to stay by your side until death. A fool could tell you this is a bad deal.

For a woman, love is the highest dream, and if a man promises to build a ladder tall enough to reach it, she believes him, hikes up her skirt, and follows him to the stars.

I don't use a crap camera, I don't eat junk, and I'm not going to a dance where the boys are bores

And when you clear away the cobwebs of the description of every job in the world, at the bottom of that job is service. It's service. And I took that ethic and applied it to my writing craft.

Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing.