You Can Never Have Too Much Butter

From The Essay "twenty-five Things People Have A Shocking Capacity To Be Surprised By Over And Over Again" 1. Journalists Sometimes Make Things Up. 2. Journalists Sometimes Get Things Wrong. 3. Almost All Books That Are Published As Memoirs Were Initially Written As Novels, And Then The Agent/editor Said, This Might Work Better As A Memoir. 6. Freedom Of The Press Belongs To The Man Who Owns One.

The Wonderbra Is Not A Step Forward For Women. Nothing That Hurts That Much Is A Step Forward For Women.

People In New Orleans Really Care About Food, Care About It Passionately, Can Spend Hours Arguing Over Whether Antoine's Is Better Than Galatoire's Or The Other Way Around ... In New Orleans, There Is Basically Nothing To Do But Eat And Then Argue About It.

All That Means Is That It Wasn't Personal To You. But It Was Personal To Me.

New Orleans Is One Of The Two Most Ingrown, Self-obsessed Little Cities In The United States. (the Other Is San Francisco.)