Getting a tattoo would probably make me cry.

I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

Many Texas barbecue fanatics have a strong belief in the beneficial properties of accumulated grease.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

Perhaps we've time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in.

I'm in favor of liberalizing immigration because of the effect it would have on restaurants. I'd let just about everybody in except the English.

Every good idea sooner or later degenerates into hard work.

Did you know that five out of three people have trouble with fractions.

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

I’ve married a man who is so afraid of living, he’d rather destroy the very thing that makes him feel alive.

He felt a wonderful certainty. The impossible, he thought, the impossible is about to happen again.

Indeed. I have often thought that when a man selects one word over another he often reveals far more of himself than he intended.

Once you've experienced the warmth of an audience, the achievement of getting your first laugh, and entertaining them, singing or playing piano, it just keeps it all going.

While men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength.

Let your life yield a sweet, winsome melody that this old world needs so desperately. Yes you can if you will.

A large picture can give us images of things, but a relatively small one can best re-create the instantaneous unity of nature as a view - the unity of which the eyes take in at a single glance.

Many people who say they have financial problems really mean that they want more than they need.

I'm happy with the success I've had, and I feel like there's been a lot that I've learned this year, and that's a great thing going into the future.

I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's.