"I've got a hunch -" he pounded his mustache with his knuckles.

"Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. We are really founded on an argument about what that proposition means."

"Do you now hold Pharaoh in your arms?" Beautiful. Beautiful. Madeleine L'engle is unexpectedly KILLING ME with the beauty of her poetry that I didn't even know existed.

"One-pot cookery is a cuisine of scarcity: scarce fuel, scarce utensils, scarce ingredients. Nothing is wasted. It is no coincidence that food for the relief of poverty has almost always taken the form of soup."