To remember my values, I need to lose certain tastes and find other handles for the memories that they once helped me carry.

Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.

Everybody knows the competing identities of people who have kids.

Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, and identity.

[…] but I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.

Succotash my Balzac, dipshiitake.

It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.