Avoid restaurants with names that are improbable descriptions, such as the Purple Goose, the Blue Kangaroo or the Quilted Orangutan.

I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

Many Texas barbecue fanatics have a strong belief in the beneficial properties of accumulated grease.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

Perhaps we've time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in.

I'm in favor of liberalizing immigration because of the effect it would have on restaurants. I'd let just about everybody in except the English.

Every good idea sooner or later degenerates into hard work.

Did you know that five out of three people have trouble with fractions.

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

Life imitates art, but clumsily, copying its movements when it thinks it isn't looking.

Education should be gentle and stern not cold and lax.

The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.

There are two things to do in Juneau, drink and get drunk.

Pop Idol, X Factor, Fame Academy, there's so much talent out there. It's great to see people getting the chance to show their potential

Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write.

The new knowledge has not yet settled in culture. It has not yet been integrated in a new cosmic conception.

And I think as long as a song has beautiful lyrics, I'm so happy.

The road recedes as the traveler advances, leaving a continuous present.

The laws of supply and demand drive up the price, inevitably, over time. But solar and wind are abundant and renewable resources.