Biography Quote by Walter Isaacson

“People who put avocados in the fridge are basically saying, 'I want to eventually experience something less amazing.”

— Gregor Collins

“Some people have no more burden than an avocado going bad.”

— Elizabeth Berg

“He taught me how to eat avocados by melting grape jelly and french dressing together in a saucepan and filling the cup of the…

— Sylvia Plath

“What's your avocado?”

— Stacie Zinn Roberts

“His strongest tastes were negative. He abhorred plastics, Picasso, sunbathing, and jazz--everything in fact that had happened in his own lifetime. The tiny kindling…

— Evelyn Waugh

“and yes, baby-puke-green appliances. To be fair, when they were initially manufactured, they were called avocado. Which was just insulting to avocados.”

— Alice Clayton

“If there is a God, he’s a son of a bitch. If he wanted to do us a favor he would have made raw…

— Marshall Thornton

“To him, restaurants were the ultimate expression of ungodly waste. For of all the luxuries that your money could buy, a restaurant left you…

— Amor Towles

“Jobs could be charming to people he hated just as easily as he could be insulting to people he liked.”

— Walter Isaacson

“He had never been satisfied and never would be. It wasn't success he craved, or even fame, it was history: he wanted to crack…

— Lily Brooks-Dalton

“(the nature of that unfairness perhaps being just that they had been born stronger, more clever, more energetic than others), and who, having seized…

— George Saunders

"Just to have my kids be in the sun every day-picking avocados, going for a swim," she says. "Even for two years or something,…

— Gwyneth Paltrow