Chinese food tries to engage the mind, not just the palate. To provoke the intellect.

Great food needed more than chefs; it needed gourmet diners.

But I get frightened sometimes," she admitted."I know. Fear is only fear, though.""And somehow you live without it.""No," he corrected her. "You live with it.

What was more brutal than loss of hope?

An inch of gold can't buy an inch of time

I think once I was in high school - I had boyfriends and stuff like that, but I think when I was younger, I went through a period where I looked like a boy, and people thought I was a boy.

I'm not saying goodbye to life because I'm a misanthropist or disdain this life, but because, for other reasons, it's time to move on.

How describe the delicate thing that happens when a brilliant insect alights on a flower? Words, with their weight, fall upon the picture like birds of prey.

Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions?

As an elder I mistrust the wisdom of age.

I didn't know if I was heterosexual or homosexual.

Integrating in the Church doesn't mean receiving communion.

The first casualty of war is innocence.

The White House press corps isn't there at a press briefing. It's not... They're not news gatherers there. There really isn't any media.

What always seems miraculous is when aesthetic necessities yield an insight which otherwise I would have missed.