"M F K Fisher is the dowager queen of writers on browsing and slicing."

“When it comes to getting dressed, men are a little bit more important than handbags but less important than shoes.”

“I'm Allen Walker!" My life....is over...I'm going to die....”

“I've chosen to stay in a jolly place for most of my life, and that is a lot of who I am.”

“The best place to begin is always with gratitude.”

“If the bible were published as fiction, no reviewer would give it a passing grade. There are some vivid scenes and quotable phrases but there's no plot, no structure, a tremendous amount of filler and the characters are painfully one dimensional. Whatever you do, don't read the bible for a moral code. It advocates prejudice, cruelty, superstition and murder. Read it because we need more atheists.”

“The universe is almost like a huge magic trick and scientists are trying to figure out how it does what it does.”

“Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.”

Source : Natalia Ginzburg, Dick Davis (1989). “The Little Virtues”, p.72, Arcade Publishing

“Jesus, you've got a death wish." "Right now I have a bathroom-and-sleep-somewhere safe wish, kid.”