Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.

your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.

To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.

No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.

Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever

I, a product of the New Frontier and Great Society, honestly believed that the world pretty much owed me a living--all I had to do was wait around in order to live better than my parents.

So I didn't have time to craft artful lies and evasions even if I'd wanted to.

He doesn't yearn for a better, different life than the one he has - because he knows he's got a home in this one.

I imagine, therefore I am.

I am sad, like the hot dust on the streetsAnd the music of fresh fallen leavesCaught in a sliding summer breeze.

Each drop that fell, had a story to tell.each smile that curved, said a million words.(Poem: Our Existence, Book: Ginger and Honey)

On the third day God created the beautiful Earth, and on the fourth day his favorite and dearest of all, your gorgeous smile.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

Because Cards' fans are the most knowledgeable and loyal in all of baseball, they booed almost reluctantly, polite as booing goes, what would have passes as a standing ovation in Philly.

When in doubt, do something.

Love to the love tear, even too, same evil, Attempt, without strength and armor, To reach the unreachable star.

Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.

Some people fear that technology will become more engaging than live human interactions. That's silly; technology is already way more interesting than other people.