A meal without wine is like a day without sun

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.

To invite people to dine with us is to make ourselves responsible for their well-being for as long as they are under our roofs.

Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved.

The pleasures of the table belong to all times and ages, to every country and every day; they go hand in hand with all our other pleasures, outlast them, and remain to console us for their loss.

In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.

Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye

Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating

The fate of a nation depends on the way that they eat.

(One character on another:)"Don't you know that I passionately dote on every chin on his face?

Success is a collection of problems solved.

You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.

My mom's Puerto Rican. That's why I'm so lively and colorful.

If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.

If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty.

Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.

I don't know anything about the history of music.

Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now.

Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen.