“I was firmly in the out-of-sight-out-of-mind camp, and had cogent, unflinchingly honest declarations I frequently made about losing a shared context, and sentimentalism, and the general faint heart...”

“How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother?”

“My parents seemed incredibly special and outrageously handsome to me then.”

“This is the crepe. This is the cider. This is how we live and eat.”

“I am often slow in catching up to the times, but even so, I still cannot even grip this idea: With nothing more than pitocin in your IV drip, you can sooner control the date and time of the birth o...”

“Be careful what you get good at doin', cuz you'll be doin' it for the rest of your life.”

“Get the big picture! See 2 Believe!”

“My doctor has given me as strong an antihistamine as she is allowed to prescribe, but even that does nothing for the itching and swelling. The moment a grain of pollen enters the keep, I begin to t...”

“We got so much food in America we're allergic to food. Allergic to food! Hungry people ain't allergic to shit. You think anyone in Rwanda's got a fucking lactose intolerance?!”

“Eating a can be the weight that pulls you under or the life raft. It's your choice.”

“Self-help isn't really self-help unless someone else is also helping you. We'd like to be that someone.”

“If I don't eat junk, I don't gain weight.”

“The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.”

“Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.”

“The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.”