“I'm a bartender. I like recipes. They're concretes. Was the drink recipe for seduction one shot charm and two shots self-deception, shaken, not stirred?”

“A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.”

“In books may be found the recipes for manufacture of a steam-engine alongside the recipes for daily living—the prescriptions for the mind and the heart.”

“Being able to exist in a place where light and dark meet is actually not a recipe for unhappiness. It is a recipe for a deeper kind of happiness.”

“The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy…. Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness.”

“Money is the best recipe for happiness.”

“Recipes are just descriptions of one person’s take on one moment in time. They’re not rules.”

“Here in the hospital, I say,
that is not my body, not my body.
I am not here for the doctors
to read like a recipe.”

“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”

“But now the shots began—not many, but one shot is a fusillade if there have been no shots before.”