The benevolence of wrapping the partridge in a vine leaf brings out its quality, just as the barrel of Diogenes brought forth the qualities of the great thinker.

Make an amiable intermediary of an egg, which comes between the various parts of food to bring about difficult reconciliations.

Take advantage of the gracious condescension of the elegant calf's kidney, multiply its metamorphoses: you can without giving it any offence, call it the chameleon of cuisine.

To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.

We've got our heads pulled low inside of our hooded sweatshirts and our eyes are shifty. We look exactly like you'd expect someone to look if they were minutes away from committing a major crime.

I can't cook. I can barely make a bowl of cereal.

I'm not optimistic at all, nor am I pessimistic.

You'll see everything from gold teeth to hood ornaments. It's almost like Halloween during August.

The force of union conquers all.

A writer is supposed to have anonymity.

From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline.

Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy, and then toiled in obscurity for years.

Obviously, as an adult I realize this girl-on-girl sabotage is the third worst kind of female behavior, right behind saying "like" all the time and leaving your baby in a dumpster.