Stories about food are stories about us-our history and our values.

I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do. They show us that conversations are possible across distances.

You only get to keep what you refuse to let go of.

It seems entirely possible to me that horrible things can be going on without us becoming horrible people.

We were quiet on the car ride home. I turned on the radio and found a station playing "Hey Jude." It was true, I didn't want to make it bad. I wanted to take the sad song and make it better. It's just that I didn't know how.

You have to do something bad to do something good.

Words never mean what we want them to mean.