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

Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.

Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.

The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by the EPA as carcinogenic in humans.

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.

Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.

Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.