“Tea is certainly as much of a social drink as coffee, and more domestic, for the reason that the teacup hours are the family hours."”

“The spirit of the tea beverage is one of peace, comfort and refinement."”

“...there were certain chapters when I stopped writing, saw the domestic situation I was in and thought, "I don't want to face this world, let's get back to the hellish one I'm imagining.”

“Under certain circumstances there are few hours more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.”

“they bread the chicken fingers in Cap'n Crunch cereal. Yeah. Take a moment to absorb how incredible that is, because once you do, you're going to be checking yourself and a platter of that shit into t he nearest hourly motel.”

“Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.”

“Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.”