That boy made me realize, for a while at least, that my parents were wrong, and I didn't have to be like them.

Someone is putting brandy in your bonbons, Grand Marnier in your breakfast jam, Kahlua in your ice cream, Scotch in your mustard and Wild Turkey in your cake.

If Broadway shows charge preview prices while the cast is in dress rehearsal, why should restaurants charge full price when their dining room and kitchen staffs are still practicing?

Today's restaurant is theater on a grand scale.

It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to hold the sweetened library paste that passes for gravy.

Fish sticks and beef stew that millions of children love to hate.

The biggest problem with Bill Schutz's food is his timidity with herbs and spices and some bizarre primeval fear of salt.

Americans may be drinking fewer alcoholic beverages, but they are certainly eating more of them than ever before. Wittingly or un.

This has got to be the most expensive food ever laminated.

The turkeys that most Americans eat for Thanksgiving are turkeys - losers that are mass produced and bland.

I'm going to enjoy this.”“What?” I asked. “Hell?

There are people that have had worse happen to them. All those people that died in the hotel bombing? All those that were maimed and left orphaned?

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

We are not. We never were; we never shall be. We return to the void we never, for mehay is the center of all, and all is the center of nothing.

Photography is my method for defining the confusing world that rushes constantly toward me. It is my defensive attempt to reduce our daily chaos to a set of understandable images.

A woman isn't very powerful without her intuition.

I want to draw and study a few things closely by feeling, not thinking.

Without the cross we have a meaningless and powerless Christianity.

Constantly seek difficulties. You shouldn't be afraid to fail; rather you should fail continually, so that you can win in the end. Without difficulties, we cannot grow.

As a writer, I first felt successful before I was published.

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.