Bad restaurants find unique ways to be bad. Good ones are good in the same way: good food, nice staff, a pleasant room. The human capacity for finding unique ways to screw things up always amazes me.

Salt is the difference between eating in Technicolor and eating in black and white.

In my experience of vegan food it tends to be a symphony of beige.

English wine is like Belgian rock or German disco: a waste of everyone's time and money.

One of my mottos for living is: never eat on a boat, unless you own the boat.

People adore bad reviews. Nobody would be interested in reading the good ones.

The tragedy of my job [journalist] is that I rarely get to go where I want to go. I have to go where the job takes me.

It's how we see the world that keeps the darkness beyond at bay. Keeps it from pouring through and devouring us. I think all of us might know that, way down deep.

I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine.

A life might end, but sometimes their case lives forever.

I am thinking, ’ he remarked quietly, ’whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scattering your brains about the fireplace.

I've found that the way a person feels about cats-and the way they feel about him or her in return-is usually an excellent gauge by which to measure a person's character

It was at this moment that I wrote my first important paper in theoretical physics. I was 32 years old, 5 years beyond the alleged age of senility for theorists.

My heart's in the right place. I know, 'cuz I hid it there.

Well, I am not afraid of the word 'liberal.'

And indeed nothing had happened, a momentous nothing, just another of the great world's shrugs of indifference.

As a teenager, you have so much energy and hormones and you feel powerless in your life.