“She wants to have baked a cake that banishes sorrow, even if only for a little while.”

“The trouble with Clare was, not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, but that she wanted to nibble at the cakes of other folk as well.”

“I have to go," I say, "I am baking a cake.”

“Banish business, banish sorrow. To the gods belongs tomorrow.”

“Imagination is not an icing on the cake of life but the oven in which it is baked.”

“His father is out cutting wood, so he goes to his mother.'Mother, I must away and see the world, or I shall go mad.'Says his mother, 'If you must go, go you must, and God go with you! I will bake you a cake. Will you have a little cake with my blessing, or a big cake with my cursing?'Says Jack, 'Make me a big cake, mother. It will last longer.'His mother makes him a big cake, and he sets out. And she is standing on the roof of the house, calling curses after him as far as she can see him.”