Succotash my Balzac, dipshiitake.

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.

The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.

His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.

To feel alone is to be alone.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

One of the most empowering things about being human is the fact that a single choice can change the entire direction of our lives. What are you choosing for yourself?

Success rarely occurs until a desire is turned into a passion and all focus and energy is channelled in its path.

Her body was spattered with tiny bits of the reverend’s flesh and blood, like someone had combined shrimp and tomato soup and then forgot to put the lid on the blender.

It's a tough life, she'd said. "It's the little things that get us through the day.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.

When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

I didn't start cooking until I was thirty-two. Until then, I just ate. - Julia Child

We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism.

Most of the time, it's not until we embrace our limitations that God can start to use us beyond our limitations.