No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food.

Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask any woman.

Depending on the inflection, ah bon can express shock, disbelief, indifference, irritation, or joy - a remarkable achievment for two short words.

Best advice I've ever received: Finish.

I'd rather live precariously in my own office than comfortably in somebody else's.

The English kill their meat twice: once when they slaughter it and once when they cook it.

Nowadays, if you have a journey, albeit a simple one, you consider yourself lucky if nothing happens.

Why not make a daily pleasure out a daily necessity.

You don't like it when a French housewife gets mad at you. If she gets steam behind her, she is an unstoppable creature.

There is nothing like a comfortable adventure to put people in a good humor. . .

Prescription for writer’s block: fear of poverty.

Things are as they should be at this moment. When you accept that, you become responsible for everything you have and are. You then hold the power to change your future!

It is this brighter side, the romantic side, the emotional side, that appeals to me.

I note that some whom I greatly love and esteem, who are, in my judgment, among the very choicest of God's people, nevertheless, travel most of the way to heaven by night.

I've gained a few pounds around the middle. The only lower body garments I own that still fit me comfortably are towels.

[Reviewing a production of Uncle Tom's Cabin] The dogs were poorly supported by the cast.

Land of snap decisions, land of short attention spans, nothing is savored long enough to really understand.

I felt Holyfield was using his head illegally. I told the referee I wasn't getting any help, so I went back to the streets. I cannot defend it, but it happened.

In America many things that are interesting are seen as odd.

Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us.

I'm really interested in the idea of long, long life and transformation and immortality.