“Earlyworm rolled the words along the table like a fragmentation grenade.”

“I'm not sure that pasteurized thinking is rich enough in intellectual vitamins”

“The rock's easy, but the roll is another thing...”

“Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.”

“Cooking is an art and patience a virtue... Careful shopping, freshingredients and an unhurried approach are nearly all you need. There is one more thing - love. Love for food and love for those you invite to your table. With a combination of these things you can be an artist - not perhaps in the representational style of a Dutch master, but rather more like Gauguin, the naïve, or Van Gogh,the impressionist. Plates or pictures of sunshine taste of happiness and love.”

“And if I get it right everybody will be singing along, yeahAnd when they see you on the street they’ll say,'Hey, ain’t you the girl in that song?”

“It's only a story.' As if such words made it less real. But I did not believe him even then, for stories were written down, and the words on the page were proof enough. Fixed and permanent in time, the words, if anything, made the people and places more real than the everchanging world.”