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.

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!

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.

The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture.

We just had a near-life experience!

There is nothing more beautiful than a vulnerable heart in open hands.

You said you were allowed to lose it, ' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet.

Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?

There's a pervasive feeling that when somebody sings a song and records a song on a record, that it's their true feeling.

Our limitation is God’s opportunity

That corner of the world smiles for me more than anywhere else.

Ybon was the one who suggested calling the wait something else. Yeah, like what? Maybe, she said, you could call it life.

You don't need someone to tell you what to do. You know what you need to do. Do it.

The truly free market is the worker's best friend.