Swirls of antique stained glass, blazes of brass, forests of carved wood and waterfalls of crystal combine to make up the city's most fabulously festive interior.

Before long it will be the animals who do the dieting so that the ultimate consumer does not have to.

romances and marriages are usually over long before they are over.

Tomato and lettuce-especially lettuce-is an abomination.

I'm too young to be this old.

It's much tougher to be a restaurant critic now. You have to take a subway out to Brooklyn. I wouldn't want to do it.

If it is true, as used to be said, that oversalting means the cook is in love, at least one cook at Le Cirque must be head over heels.

Restaurants want to be judged on their intentions - not the results.

It takes many sheep to satisfy one wolf.

All worthwhile journeys have big obstacles. It's the way of the world. The rewards go to those who can push through those trying moments and still manage to keep a smile on their face.

Gratitude is really, really attractive. A child who is genuinely grateful makes you want to do anything for her, and that is true of adults as well.

You need to spend all of your time and energy on creating something that actually brings value to the people you're asking for money!

Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal, than accused of deficiency in the graces.

What I've always lacked is a really strong band to back me up.

How much you discipline your mind to step out of its routines and look into new ways of doing things that you haven't yet adopted, is what will determine your economic potential.

The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.

You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.

We came up with the notion that not all web pages are created equal. People are – but not web pages.