Ultimately, the roast turkey must be regarded as a monument to Boomer's love.

If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal. This puts you metaphysically on the run. America is full of metaphysical outlaws.

There's probably no subject with quite so many conflictin' opinions about it as there are about food, and 'tis better to swap bubble gum with a rabid bulldog than challenge a single one o' the varyin' beliefs your average human holds about nutrition.

Words on a page can hypnotize you if the rhythm is right

If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering.

Listen, I've been sick ever since I started working here, but today I'm well and I won't be in anymore.

This did not annoy Amanda for it had long been her theory that human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.