“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.”

“It’s good.’ She chirps the last bit as if that were all to say about a book: It’s good or it’s bad. I liked it or I didn’t. No discussions of the writing, the themes, the nuances, the structure. Just good or bad. Like a hot dog.”

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

“In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity.”

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

“A woman is like a teabag - only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.”

“I like my coffee hot and strong. Like I like my women: hot and strong… with a spoon in them.”

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

“The love of God is so hot than a burning coal. It burns the heart and warms the chest; while at the same time calming the mind like still water.”

“Isabelle chewed thoughtfully on her straw. 'That new lead singer they have is hot. Is he single? I'd like to ridearound town like a bad, bad pony”