Soup is to the meal, what the hostesses smile of welcome is to the party. A prelude to the goodness to come.

Soup is cuisine's kindest course. It breathes reassurance; it steams consolation; after a weary day it promotes sociability, as the five o'clock cup of tea or the cocktail hour.

Soup is the song of the hearth... and the home.

Soups challenge us, because an enticing flavorful stew can be as different from the thin watery beverage sometimes erroneously called soup as a genuine green turtle is from the mock turtle.

Like the whale who swallowed Jonah, we have engulfed all national dishes known to civilized man and made them in delight, if not in name our own.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.

With nonfiction, I go in trying to be really honest about what my preconceptions are.

Hey, I like this: early nothing.

When you prostitute yourself, you have to get paid for it.

In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt reminded us that the Constitution is, and I quote, "a layman's document, not a lawyer's contract."

When I try to use incantations at work i often find they have no effect and my coworkers just laugh at me.

Intuition is the voice of the spirit within you.

Certain realities of life we only see through eyes cleansed by our tears.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

I don't really care for like fat jokes about women, specifically.