Before long it will be the animals who do the dieting so that the ultimate consumer does not have to.

Swirls of antique stained glass, blazes of brass, forests of carved wood and waterfalls of crystal combine to make up the city's most fabulously festive interior.

romances and marriages are usually over long before they are over.

Tomato and lettuce-especially lettuce-is an abomination.

I'm too young to be this old.

It's much tougher to be a restaurant critic now. You have to take a subway out to Brooklyn. I wouldn't want to do it.

If it is true, as used to be said, that oversalting means the cook is in love, at least one cook at Le Cirque must be head over heels.

Restaurants want to be judged on their intentions - not the results.

Breaking your family's heart was the price you paid for rescuing your own.

The bravest thing that men do is love women.

A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade.

I shall become a master in this art only after a great deal of practice.

What we need to get right is not focusing on the fear associated with quantity - not enough, scarcity, and lack - and moving instead to a worldview that explores quality and connectedness.

Two radical activists in an organizing group sometime despise each other and disagree with each other as much as a Republican and Democratic politician do.

Don't be a drag. Just be a queen.

If I'm out to dinner with a group of friends, and somebody offers to pay for the check, I immediately reach for my wallet. Inside is a note that says, "Say thanks!"

Newton came up with Newton's laws of motion and gravity. They worked. They were working.

The public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded.