How can people say they don't eat eggplant when God loves the color and the French love the name? I don't under'stand.

Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy.

Scallops are expensive, so they should be treated with some class. But then, I suppose that every creature that gives his life for our table should be treated with class.

The squid is so cooperative. Its body forms a tube that can be stuffed with marvelous fillings. You don't have to be Greek to enjoy this one.

All kids draw some kind of cartoon characters. They just grow out of them, and I didn't

CONTROL MYSELF?!! I'm a MONSTER! Monsters don't control themselves! That's the whole IDEA!

Smiley Bone: You can't feel safe unless there's something to be safe against! Phoney Bone: Exactly! People like to be victims! There's a certain unassailable moral superiority about it.

Serve this dish with much too much wine for your guests, along with some cooked green vegetables and a huge salad. You will be famous in about half an hour.

Feasting is also closely related to memory. We eat certain things in a particular way in order to remember who we are. Why else would you eat grits in Madison, New Jersey?

I don't go for the nouvelle approach - serving a rabbit rump with coffee extract sauce and a slice of kiwi fruit.

The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture.

There is no question that there is an unseen world. The problem is, how far is it from midtown and how late is it open?

It's better to talk about a dead hero than a living zero

We aren't just thrown on this earth like dice tossed across a table. We are lovingly placed here for a purpose

Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.

Everyday is a beautiful day, Everything is pleasing

one of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind's imagining into another

I played soccer, and I was the kid who ran the wrong way, or I was pretending to be some sort of zebra and I would flail my arms and kick up my legs.

Five years off my life... I wondered with a wry smile, would people be immortal if they didn't have kids?

Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.

To me, only that which makes me wise is worth knowing.