Drawn by warm nostalgic feelings for the place and by two sweet little words: "Open Bar."

New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train.

Pressed caviar has the consistency of chilled tar.

They used to have a fish on the menu that was smoked, grilled and peppered They did everything to this fish but pistol-whip it and dress it in Bermuda shorts.

There is a lovely warmness about feelings of nostalgia as though in one's head one is putting on a pair of comfy old slippers and curling up in front of a fire.

Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for about a dollar and a half.

Grown men have been seen fleeing after reading the menu posted outside.

... why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time.

Those suffering from terminal falsehood seek out each other, like a drunk seeks out a wall so that he doesn't fall down.

Possibly, there was something to be said for the intellectual discipline of second-guessing what you thought was true.

A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.

I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.

I believe love is the most powerful energy we have in this life. Everything is about love.

Can the sarcasm,' he said. 'Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned.

My nan used to look after me in the summer holidays and she had a cat with one eye. It used to walk into walls and tables. I used to think it was hilarious. It was a slapstick cat.

Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?

Let a man go down as low as possible; there must come a time when out of sheer desperation he will take an upward curve and will learn to have faith in himself.