“It feels like cheap sex and spurious art to me, the spiritual equivalent of junk food; it may look like an éclair, but it's really a Twinkie.”

“I often look around in a church at the utterly expressionless faces singing "Alleluia! Alleluia!" and wonder why we don't let our faces know what our lips are saying.”

“You do what you were made to do. Some of us were made to read and write. Thanks be to God.”

“It was the sort of day when deciding what to wear is like planning a military operation. Believe me – I have considerable experience of both.”

“Let me through – I’m a doctor.’ My heart beat a little faster, and I lingered just long enough to be sure he’d used the indefinite article. But the man was short and bald and rather ugly – not at all like any Doctor I’d consult. I hope. If ‘consult’ is the right word.”

“She had a heart like a Twinkie, full of oversweet goo, yes, a real junk-food heart.”

“You think food, dancing, and sex is the answer to everything.Everything worth anything, duh!”