There are times with your friends when you just have to put their whole mess out of your mind for a while.

People want to care about people. People look after each other, given the chance. ... I believe just believing in goodness generates a tiny bit of the stuff, so that being so foolish as to believe in our better natures, if just for a day, we actually contribute to the sum total of generosity in the universe.

The blog is certainly another tool for writers out there to break their way in. But being a blogger does not make you a great writer.

Nowadays anyone with a crap laptop and an Internet connection can sound their barbaric yawp, whatever it may be.

You can never have too much, butter.

The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes

If there's a sexier sound on this planet than the person you're in love with cooing over the crepes you made for him, I don't know what it is.