Prescription for writer’s block: fear of poverty.

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.

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

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. . .

I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunder

There is a deep interconnectedness of all life on earth, from the tiniest organisms, to the largest ecosystems, and absolutely between each person.

There are three things a man must do alone. Be born die and testify.

Every one of our congressional offices, every day, is under attack.

America faces an enemy who believes in enforced ignorance. And all that we stand for is the open mind, the generous spirit, the ideal of tolerance, freedom, education, opportunity.

Oppression is the essence of power.

A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can accomplish.

Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems.

The challenge before us is to savor the unknown and delight in the taste of possibility.

The acme of faith is... immersion of the mind in God.