Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways as if we were both party to relations with a failed outcome. Or say I was afflicted with Africa like a bout of a rare disea...
Jack London and Ernest Hemingway, confidence swaggering into the storm: Man against Nature. Of all the possible conflicts, that was the one that was hopeless. Even a slim education had taught her this...
I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
I’ve been thinking about that. About how your kids aren’t really yours, they’re just these people that you try to keep an eye on, and hope you’ll all grow up someday to like each other and still be in...
I’m saying when God slams a door on you it’s probably a shitstorm. You’re going to end up in rubble. But it’s okay because without all that crap overhead, you’re standing in the daylight.
I’m always looking at the dialectic between the truth we believe exists outside ourselves and the truth we invent for ourselves.
It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
It's just lucky for Father he never had any sons. He might have been forced to respect them.
It's frightening, she thinks, how when the going gets rough you fall back on whatever awful think you grew up with.
It is possible to establish zero tolerance for murder as a solution to anything
It feels strange to me to be living in a box, hiding from the steadying influence of the moon; wearing the hide of a cow, which is supposed to be dyed to match God-knows-what, on my feet; making promi...
In her experience people had worries or they had tons of money, not both.
In exchange for his first taste of powdered milk, Pascal showed me a tree we could climb to find a bird's nest. After we handled and examined the pink-skinned baby birds, he popped one of them into hi...
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
If you go to visit hell, you will see a room like this kitchen. There is a pot of delicious stew on the table, with the most delicate aroma you can imagine. All around, people sit, like us. Only they...
If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.
If you ask me, that's reason enough to keep a kitchen at the center of a family's life, as a place to understand favorite foods as processes, not just products.
If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce, we would reduce our country’s oil consumption by over 1.1 million barrels of oil...
If a friend had a coronary scare and finally started exercising three days a week, who would hound him about the other four days? It’s the worst of bad manners—and self-protection, I think, in a nervo...
I'll never get over my grappling for balance, never stop believing life is going to be , the minute we can clear up all these mistakes of the temporarily misguided.