The egg creams of Avenue A in New York and the root beer float....are among the high points of American gastronomic inventiveness.

Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture.

A gourmet knows that the best part is not always the expensive part, and he will find that part, and then he will share it. A gourmet should want to share.

If ever there was a fish made to endure, it is the Atlantic cod... But it has among its predators - man, an openmouthed species greedier than cod.

Judging foods without regard to price is a rich mans game, and yet poor people can be gourmets able to discern a good potato from a bad one.

In nineteenth-century Russia, sauerkraut was valued more than caviar.

Fate likes to tease paranoids.'

modern people have seen too many chemicals and are ready to go back to eating dirt.

The history of the Americas is one of constant warfare over salt.

THE ROMANS SALTED their greens, believing this to counteract the natural bitterness, which is the origin of the word salad, salted.

I did not realize at the time, as I have discovered since, that anyone who attempts any thing original in this world must expect a bit of ridicule. Clarence Birdseye

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

In a few seconds, we judge another person and think we know them. When, the person we’ve lived with the longest, we still don’t know very well—ourselves.

I had a chance to lay it all out on the table, and I didn't. But that's the problem with shame. Shame doesn't like company. Shame's not something that likes to be shared.

We always talk about being a spark and swinging the momentum of the game and that swung it.

The universe is dynamic. When we are creative, we are the most alive and in touch with it.

In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?

The worst curse in life is unlimited potential.

Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.

Because I'm thinking in a broader way, I feel like I am able to make better decisions.

I've always thought of the audience. I just want to entertain the audience. That's what it's about: what's good for the movie, what's best for the movie, what's best for the audience.