There is nothing I like better at the end of a hot summer's day than taking a short walk around the garden. You can smell the heat coming up from the earth to meet the cooler night air.

Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask any woman.

Depending on the inflection, ah bon can express shock, disbelief, indifference, irritation, or joy - a remarkable achievment for two short words.

Best advice I've ever received: Finish.

I'd rather live precariously in my own office than comfortably in somebody else's.

The English kill their meat twice: once when they slaughter it and once when they cook it.

No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food.

Nowadays, if you have a journey, albeit a simple one, you consider yourself lucky if nothing happens.

Why not make a daily pleasure out a daily necessity.

You don't like it when a French housewife gets mad at you. If she gets steam behind her, she is an unstoppable creature.

There is nothing like a comfortable adventure to put people in a good humor. . .

It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171).

Someone threw a cabbage at William Howard Taft. That didn't bother Taft. He quipped, "I see that one of my adversaries has lost his head.

Surely you’ve been sent from the heavens to teach us mortals what beauty is.

Antarctic symphony has a geometric relationship to the landscape. It's saying that this landscape and the minimal kind of, you know I'm talking like seeing ice, is visually kind of eerily minimal.

The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.

Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being.

A martial art that has no rules is nothing but violence.

I didn't promise I wouldn't break your tender heart, Mica. Protect it from me. Don't let me touch that part of you. Don't let me destroy both of us that way.

Watch the things you say you can't believe, and then recall the things you accept without thinking, like your own existence.

If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting.