He doesn't yearn for a better, different life than the one he has - because he knows he's got a home in this one.

your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.

Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.

To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.

No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.

Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever

I, a product of the New Frontier and Great Society, honestly believed that the world pretty much owed me a living--all I had to do was wait around in order to live better than my parents.

So I didn't have time to craft artful lies and evasions even if I'd wanted to.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to.

Apologize quickly when you wrong someone, because I'm sorry has no value in the grave.

Even God has a need

All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them but what is universal.

There's a lot of talk about the positive aspects of love. We as a society downplay the danger, the anxiety, and the disappointment. We romanticize romance.

Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.

I come from a huge family. I am used to taking orders and being told what to do and not having an opinion, but I think that what I've gone through made me really sensitive to other people.

The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?

Angel exists; and I believe in angels but I'm not an angel; no one can be an angel; just we can be straight.

I'm on the verge of taking a stand.