Chefs who cook in these ivory towers are in control in their own world. We try to approximate that world as best we can, but ultimately our goal is to please our clients.

I've heard of translators collaborating closely with their authors, sometimes even living with them for a while, but that's not me.

The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.

I hope more women see, at least eventually, that a healthy relationship isn't anything that breaks you down.

My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.

Illness is the great equalizer. It doesn't matter who you are, rich or poor, young or old, fat or thin, sick is sick.

When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.

I'm just a normal guy.

The United States is the most powerful nation on Earth and it just can't walk away from the Middle East and central Asia and the Horn of Africa.

If I don't have a woman for three days, I get terrible headaches.

My love of books was all that saved me.