I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly.

I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly.

If anger were mileage, I'd be a very frequent flyer, right up there in First Class.

We should remind ourselves that laughing together is as close as you can get to another person without touching, and sometimes it represents a closer tie than touching ever could.

Most cooks would not, for example, prepare an important, elaborate, and difficult dish on the back-burner. Neither should we relegate the cultivation and preparation of happiness for a position where it is both hard to reach and difficult to infuse with new ingredients.

While I do not believe the earth loaned to us by our ancestors should be plagued by chemical horrors and thereby corrupted for future generations, neither do I believe I should have to face anything that has more eyes than I have during dinner. It was my rule when I was dating and, heck, it's still my rule now.

I personally translated the word 'vendetta' as Italian for 'What do you mean, "you want to see other women"?