Engagements - they are like a prayer before eating, best quick.

Enough fine weather and money and a few memorable meals make any place desirable.

My father was right: you could make anybody amazing just by insisting they were.

Engagements - they are like a prayer before eating, best quick.

It's a happy life, but someone is missing. It's a happy life, and someone is missing.

As for me, I believe that if there's a God - and I am as neutral on the subject as is possible - then the most basic proof of His existence is black humor. What else explains it, that odd, reliable comfort that billows up at the worst moments, like a beautiful sunset woven out of the smoke over a bombed city.

I come from food the way some people come from money. Food was the medium I grew up in, what we talked about, what shaped our days.