Whenever I Get Married, I Start Buying

From The Essay "twenty-five Things People Have A Shocking Capacity To Be Surprised By Over And Over Again" 1. Journalists Sometimes Make Things Up. 2. Journalists Sometimes Get Things Wrong. 3. Almost All Books That Are Published As Memoirs Were Initially Written As Novels, And Then The Agent/editor Said, This Might Work Better As A Memoir. 6. Freedom Of The Press Belongs To The Man Who Owns One.

What I Love About Cooking Is That After A Hard Day, There Is Something Comforting About The Fact That If You Melt Butter And Add Flour And Then Hot Stock, It Will Get Thick! It's A Sure Thing! It's A Sure Thing In A World Where Nothing Is Sure; It Has A Mathematical Certainty In A World Where Those Of Us Who Long For Some Kind Of Certainty Are Forced To Settle For Crossword Puzzles.

American Society Has A Remarkable Ability To Resist Change, Or To Take Whatever Change Has Taken Place And Attempt To Make It Go Away.

Reading Is Everything. Reading Makes Me Feel Like I've Accomplished Something, Learned Something, Become A Better Person. Reading Makes Me Smarter. Reading Gives Me Something To Talk About Later On. Reading Is The Unbelievably Healthy Way My Attention Deficit Disorder Medicates Itself. Reading Is Escape, And The Opposite Of Escape; It's A Way To Make Contact With Reality After A Day Of Making Things Up, And It's A Way Of Making Contact With Someone Else's Imagination After A Day That's All Too Real. Reading Is Grist. Reading Is Bliss.

One Of The Things People Always Say To You If You Get Upset Is, Don't Take It Personally, But Listen Hard To What's Going On And, Please, I Beg You, Take It Personally. Understand: Every Attack On Hillary Clinton For Not Knowing Her Place Is An Attack On You. Underneath Almost All Those Attacks Are The Words: Get Back, Get Back To Where You Once Belonged.