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.

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.

I'm too young to be this old.

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.

Restaurants want to be judged on their intentions - not the results.

There is no greater love than the love of God.

The true meaning of your life doesn't lie in your experiences, but in your frequent positive interpretations of your past and present.

That's something I've always fond odd, people smile when they're sad. There's no such thing as a sad smile.

Never stop praying.

I decided that I would make my life my argument.

As a kid, I was heavily into martial arts and wanted to be the next Jean-Claude Van Damme.

I could not help feeling that they were evil things -- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss.

When you have a big, ugly problem, there's never going to be a neat, elegant solution that is totally painless or without a cost.

Eternity is the divine treasure-house, and hope is the window, by means of which mortals are permitted to see, as through a glass darkly, the things which God is preparing.

If we do not feel grateful for what we already have, what makes us think we'd be happy with more.