57 Quotes by Rosecrans Baldwin

About guns, about hunting, it's safe to say I know nothing. The last gun I fired was a musket at Boy Scout camp.

I was 23 when I learned how to cook; I grew up around the same time. It was precisely then that Thanksgiving started to mean something more. Growing up, Christmas was always about me, and eventually you, when I finally started to enjoy the giving part. But Thanksgiving is always about us.

I can't picture going to a beach, or anywhere on vacation, without a couple of books as companions.

In Europe, it's common to hear about young professionals living with their parents. With the continent's high rents and taxes and its population density, it makes sense.

In our town, Halloween was terrifying and thrilling, and there was a whiff of homicide. We'd travel by foot in the dark for miles, collecting candy, watching out for adults who seemed too eager to give us treats.

I actually don't think there is machismo in America, unless it's the cowboy type - the silent, smoking brooder.

Machismo requires Latin blood. I'd say I never experienced machismo up close until I worked in a French office; the typical Wall Street gunner has the soul of a coffee filter in comparison.

My father-in-law has ear hair like a wolverine. It fans out from the auricles, wafting from the ridge lines like cilia, like gray feathered plumage.

Loving relatives and home-cooked meals are solid levees against a recession.