A party without a cake is just a meeting. - Julia Child

Dorothy says she ducks invitations to dine with young married people because she can’t, at her age, take the casserole any more — she described one composed of pork chops and canned Bing cherries, after which she came home and was sick.

Upon reflection, I decided I had three main weaknesses: I was confused (evidenced by a lack of facts, an inability to coordinate my thoughts, and an inability to verbalize my ideas); I had a lack of confidence, which cause me to back down from forcefully stated positions; and I was overly emotional at the expense of careful, 'scientific' though. I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.