I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.

(on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries.

...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

Downstream is always someone else's up.

Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.

This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.