“Amazing how the soup pots of small townsare just waiting to boil over anything at all.”
“My mother's capacity for happiness was a small soup bone salting a large pot.”
“Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting.”
“The best way to know what's in the soup, is to boil yourself in it.”
“If you throw a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will hop right out. But if you put that frog in a pot of tepid water and slowly warm it, the frog doesn't figure out what going on until it's too late. Boiled frog. It's just a metter of working by slow degrees.”
“A watched pot never boils.... but it does develop paranoia”