I find that the dead-end route is to try to describe what's going on in your mouth.

I don't think I've ever met nachos that I didn't like before. It's almost inconceivable that nachos can be bad. It makes no sense.

I just think that we show an awful lot of deference to chefs in our culture and maybe not enough deference to customers.

(...) like he left a piece of himself with youand you are terrifiedhe is coming back for it.Or he left a piece of himself with you and you are terrified he is not coming back for it.

The best way to think of the ageing process in relation to a human face is to imagine a map of an area of innocent land which slowly becomes a city with many long and winding routes.

... on principle, it is quite wrong to try founding a theory on observable magnitudes alone. In reality the very opposite happens. It is the theory which decides what we can observe.

When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.

I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning. I just have an affection for paper, and that's no secret, I guess.

The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

Short of throwing away all television sets, I really don't know what we can do about writing.

The longer we lived with it the more we wanted something less about process and more about life.

A stand-up's job is to hold the mirror up to society and to look at what we're afraid of. That's why we had shows like 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons.' We made fun of ourselves then.