I am a firm believer in family life. I feel that the home is the foundation of true happiness...much more the foundation than the church (or temple) or the school can ever be.

You thought you knew what food was, you thought it was elemental. You forgot how much restaurant there was in restaurant food and how much home was in homemade.

What lived on-in me- was the discomfort of how completely I'd outgrown the novel I'd once been so happy to live in

She pondered the arrangements of the paintings on a wall like a writer pondered commas.

It'sthe fate of most Ping-Pong tables in home basements eventually to serve the ends of other, more desperate games.