People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.

The wrong words are impossible when there are no words.

Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.

Maybe he's been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony.

The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing just gets bigger. Something will eventually bring down the charming, infuriating naïveté of Americans that allows us our blithe consumption and cheerful ignorance of the secret ugliness that bring us whatever we want.

Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure.

Before that I was a scientist. I did research in population biology. And that's what I always go back to, it helps me to remember that people are not the end of the world, although we may be when it comes to it. We're just one species among millions in this world.