“Especially in a world that doesn't need homemade anything.That's when we need homemade everything.”

“With backyard eggs, you can serve homemade eggnog at a holiday party with almost complete confidence that you won't make anyone sick--from Salmonella, anyway. Because drink enough homemade eggnog, and the race is on between heart failure and liver disease, unless a stroke fells you first. But life is short. Especially if you drink eggnog.”

“All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.”

“Come on, it’s an American tradition. Apple soup? Mom’s homemade chicken pie?' She chuckled in spite of herself, then winced. 'It’s apple pie and Mom’s homemade chicken soup. But you didn’t do badly, for a start.”

“Books are to me as homemade tattoos are to an inmate. Can't get enough of them.”

“...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.”