When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.

Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.

This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden.

You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails.

The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.

He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life.

Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.