Maybe I needed to make like a potato, winnow myself down, be part of something that was not easy, just simple.

You can never have too much, butter.

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.

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

Doors are going to open-doors you can't even imagine exist.

The nice thing about having a friend who is crazier than you are is that she bolsters your belief in your own sanity.

The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes

I got my undergrad in Creative Writing, and then I didn't get my Masters in obsession, because I figured I already had that covered.

So the end may be a long time coming, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a way of sneaking up on you.

It's sad, but a relief as well, to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence.

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

We all have scars. Just because mine are hidden doesn’t make them any less painful.

Never allow society to turn you into a person you are not.

Social media is not rocket science. This, however, does not make it easy either.

But after a certain point in a marriage, you stopped having a certain kind of fight, Olive thought, because when the years behind you were more than the years in front of you, things were different.

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.

In their search for quality, people seem to be looking for permanency in a time of change.

What I want out of my career is just to work.

The new prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, while a vast improvement on his predecessor is not doing much, if anything, to slow that process done.

Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.

Our vision was to serve the whole area