“We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.”

“We have been careless with our pie repertoire. The demise of apple-pear pie with figs and saffron and orengeado pies are tragic losses.”

“We think of ourselves now as eaters of the pie instead of makes of the pie...Corporations make the pie. They make it and we eat it.”

“Since the 1980s, we have given the rich a bigger slice of our pie in the belief that they would create more wealth, making the pie bigger than otherwise possible in the long run. The rich got the bigger slice of the pie all right, but they have actually reduced the pace at which the pie is growing.”

“Women used to have time to make mince pies and had to fake orgasms. Now we can manage the orgasms, but we have to fake the mince pies. And they call this progress.”

“Where subtlety fails us we must simply make do with cream pies.”