Dinner Alone

“Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest.”
― Laurie Colwin, Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen

“Dinner alone is one of life’s pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest. People lie when you ask them what they eat when they are alone. A salad, they tell you. But when you persist, they confess to peanut butter and bacon sandwiches deep fried and eaten with hot sauce, or spaghetti with butter and grape jam.”
― Laurie Colwin, Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen

“These days any planned thing looked good to me. What heaven to have your work cut out for you, to be part of the Big Picture -- a picture you did not have to paint yourself.”
― Laurie Colwin, Goodbye Without Leaving

“Holly sat down, as if at home. But, Guido wondered, would she be happy where there were no trays?”
― Laurie Colwin, Happy All the Time

“Most of his time appeared to be spent bumming cigarettes from people whose annual income was about a fifth of his own.”
― Laurie Colwin, Happy All the Time

“Gertje was right. To be an American was to be blessed with a kind of idiotic but very useful innocence.”
― Laurie Colwin, Goodbye Without Leaving