“No sausage?" he asked.Apparently my pork consumption habits were a matter of public record.”

“Her tears were not for public consumption, she used to say. (216)”

“It doesn't seem to matter what we think...The prince will come up here and look at us as if we're barrels in a trader's wagon. And if I'm salt pork and he doesn't care for salt pork, then there's nothing I can do.”

“A Short Ode To Sausage"Sad to say, there are people who regard lovers of sausages as relics from a kind of nutritional Dark Ages"…---Charles Simic, poet. Theologically, I’d say I was predestined to eat animals carefully stuffed inside their own intestines. I’m the first to eat knockwurst,and the last in a cholesterol tsunamito relinquish my salami to the authorities. Whether beef, lamb or pork--it will end up on my fork.(I’m clear about my priorities.) And for those who go into hystericsproclaiming sausages barbaric,I want you to understand:That though you might be leaneryou can only have my wienerif you pry it from my cold dead hands.”

“There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself.”

“If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write. ”