“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.”

“every session I had no fewer than sixteen girls with allergies to dairy and wheatcheese and bread basicallybut also to garlic, eggplant, corn, and nuts. They had cleverly developed allergies, I bel...”

“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.”

“This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

“I love you like a fat kid loves cake!”

“Hard work should be rewarded by good food.”