“I fix myself a hot chocolate because it is a gateway drug to reading.”

“Comics are a gateway drug to literacy.”

“Part 1- In search of Hot Chocolate-Chip Cookies”

“He stared at his hot chocolate like it held the secret to the universe.”

“Like God's own chocolate, I'd lick her shadow off a hot sidewalk”

“That's something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.”

“This book is gaudy like a gilded cauliflower which smells so bad after a good hot water soaking, like hot chocolate sweetened with sugar beet / incompatibles blended incongruously to no purpose.”

“Oh, no way," Leo said. "We've been sitting in a cave and you get the luxury tent? Somebody give me hypothermia. I want hot chocolate and a parka!”

“When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.”

“The calories in chocolate don't count because chocolate comes from the cocoa bean, and everyone knows that beans are good for you.”