Chowder breathes reassurace. It steams consolation.

Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer.

We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the hometown left behind.

We all have hometown appetites.

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.

The day has the color and the sound of winter. Thoughts turn to chowder...chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.

A tiny radish of passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white.

Never grow a wishbone daughter where your backbone ought to be.

What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. a burn for a burn. a life for a life. that's how all this got started. and that's how it's going to end.

After I was diagnosed with celiac disease, I said yes to food, with great enthusiasm. . . . I vowed to taste everything I could eat, rather than focusing on what I could not.

Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure

Slow down, especially at the beginning of a speech. You'll get the audience's attention by pausing.

The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

When I was a waiter I was fired twice from the same restaurant. I guess I was that good of an actor but that bad of a waiter.

By the data to date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man -- man himself. So he must supply his own indispensable competition. He has no enemy to help him.

Musicals are so expensive to put on the stage that you have to have the backing of a corporate, you have to have Universal Studios or Disney or somebody to put in the money.