I'm too young to be this old.

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.

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

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

Tomato and lettuce-especially lettuce-is an abomination.

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.

If you love books enough, books will love you back.

Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.

In a fire you have to be thoughtful, you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I'm not there yet, despite the Stanford degree.

The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year.

Salvation is not a prayer you pray in a one-time ceremony and then move on from; salvation is a posture of repentance and faith that you begin in a moment and maintain for the rest of your life.

The tiger will see you a hundred times before you see him once.

Grief is a circular staircase.

I've gone through adversity most guys don't have to face.

At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.

In the world's structure dream loosens individuality like a bad tooth.