A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you will find.

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

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

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.

Don't die with your music still in you, play your music unencumbered. Should your guitar remain unstrung?

We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.

I had once again proven that again alone, I was again enough.

A poet is a pillar of light in the darkness. Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

When the people rule, they must be rendered happy, or they will overturn the state.

Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.

However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.

Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations.

I work hard and I play hard, too. There is nothing wrong with that.

Well, art has to be sexy.