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.

Everything truly important is washable.

What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.

In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.

Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.

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.

He needs to go rub his soul against life.