The way I feel about it is: Beat me or feed me, but don't tease me. It's toy food; who needs it? Serve it to toy people.

Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy.

Scallops are expensive, so they should be treated with some class. But then, I suppose that every creature that gives his life for our table should be treated with class.

The squid is so cooperative. Its body forms a tube that can be stuffed with marvelous fillings. You don't have to be Greek to enjoy this one.

How can people say they don't eat eggplant when God loves the color and the French love the name? I don't under'stand.

All kids draw some kind of cartoon characters. They just grow out of them, and I didn't

CONTROL MYSELF?!! I'm a MONSTER! Monsters don't control themselves! That's the whole IDEA!

Smiley Bone: You can't feel safe unless there's something to be safe against! Phoney Bone: Exactly! People like to be victims! There's a certain unassailable moral superiority about it.

Serve this dish with much too much wine for your guests, along with some cooked green vegetables and a huge salad. You will be famous in about half an hour.

Feasting is also closely related to memory. We eat certain things in a particular way in order to remember who we are. Why else would you eat grits in Madison, New Jersey?

I don't go for the nouvelle approach - serving a rabbit rump with coffee extract sauce and a slice of kiwi fruit.

It's all very well to put the government in the hands of the perfect man, but what do you do when the perfect man gets a bellyache?

Considering things in the ecumenical measure, we are the microbes of the Universe.

Life is the greatest sacred existence.

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

I have an insane desire to shave a stroke or two off my handicap.

The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

Most people call me Mercy. I like it

People find a way in which they can say something.

The first thing a hurdler learns is how to fall.