Fate likes to tease paranoids.'

Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture.

The egg creams of Avenue A in New York and the root beer float....are among the high points of American gastronomic inventiveness.

A gourmet knows that the best part is not always the expensive part, and he will find that part, and then he will share it. A gourmet should want to share.

If ever there was a fish made to endure, it is the Atlantic cod... But it has among its predators - man, an openmouthed species greedier than cod.

Judging foods without regard to price is a rich mans game, and yet poor people can be gourmets able to discern a good potato from a bad one.

In nineteenth-century Russia, sauerkraut was valued more than caviar.

modern people have seen too many chemicals and are ready to go back to eating dirt.

The history of the Americas is one of constant warfare over salt.

THE ROMANS SALTED their greens, believing this to counteract the natural bitterness, which is the origin of the word salad, salted.

I did not realize at the time, as I have discovered since, that anyone who attempts any thing original in this world must expect a bit of ridicule. Clarence Birdseye

The mills of the gods grind slowly but they grind exceedingly fine.

In Brazil, if you have a son, the first thing you give him is a football. That's the first gift - so my dad was no different.

Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.

I've made a lot of grown men cry with laughter, because I really am quite the joke.

If we see someone who needs help, do we stop? There is so much suffering and poverty, and a great need for good Samaritans.

You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.

[The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding in others.

To those who fall and hurt themselves one runs with comfort; by those who lie dangerously stricken by a disease one sits and waits.

When spiritual leaders have done their jobs, the people around them have encountered God and obeyed his will.

I am very fit and by playing sweeper I can control the speed of the game.