Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask any woman.

Depending on the inflection, ah bon can express shock, disbelief, indifference, irritation, or joy - a remarkable achievment for two short words.

Best advice I've ever received: Finish.

I'd rather live precariously in my own office than comfortably in somebody else's.

The English kill their meat twice: once when they slaughter it and once when they cook it.

No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food.

Nowadays, if you have a journey, albeit a simple one, you consider yourself lucky if nothing happens.

Why not make a daily pleasure out a daily necessity.

You don't like it when a French housewife gets mad at you. If she gets steam behind her, she is an unstoppable creature.

There is nothing like a comfortable adventure to put people in a good humor. . .

Prescription for writer’s block: fear of poverty.

I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials.

Nothing is easier than saying words. Nothing is harder than living them day after day.

Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.

I am single and happy.

Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe.

Be virtuous and you'll be happy Nonsense Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous.

Surely no other American institution is so bound around and tightened up by rules, strictures, adages, and superstitions as the Broadway theatre.

I wake up to profound perspective that allows me to celebrate the choices of my moments, of my life.

Scientifically, there's no debate over whether the fetus is alive and human.

The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.