It is true that I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.

Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn't it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.

organization is the religion of the single parent.

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.

There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet.

In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.

the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners