Phoney: Here's your problem Fone Bone! We're off the map! Get a bigger map!

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.

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.

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.

Ignorance is a knowledge illiteracy.

Do not exchange your soul for money.

Our power to think is infinite, consequently that means our creative power is unlimited!

Gratitude shouldn't be an occasional incident but a continuous attitude.

Those who govern must see how the people react to administration. Ultimately, the people are the final arbiters.

Too often our leaders cannot work for the greater good because they acknowledge no good greater than politics. But if that's truly our prime directive and highest imperative, God help us all.

Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.

We get the leaders we create.

You know, you want to be outrageous when you're young, so all the young people say, "Oooh . . ." Now my tactics are different.

I don't think a worship of nature is necessary to mount a really strong defense of the environment.