“Eat from a carcass that has been left out, and thou shall feast on maggots, and worms.”

“Without popcorn what would we do on Tuesdays, except smile?Happy Tuesday!”

“What good is having all of the cookies when you can’t eat anymore?”

“The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.”

“There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.”

“Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.”

“But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one’s life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favourite fountain? And then to do it again the next day?”

“The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.”