How you, a weak boy caught in the middle of a storm, both in reality and metaphorically, would risk your life to save some girl—some girl who tortured you, ignored you, destroyed you.

Someone is putting brandy in your bonbons, Grand Marnier in your breakfast jam, Kahlua in your ice cream, Scotch in your mustard and Wild Turkey in your cake.

If Broadway shows charge preview prices while the cast is in dress rehearsal, why should restaurants charge full price when their dining room and kitchen staffs are still practicing?

Today's restaurant is theater on a grand scale.

It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to hold the sweetened library paste that passes for gravy.

Fish sticks and beef stew that millions of children love to hate.

The biggest problem with Bill Schutz's food is his timidity with herbs and spices and some bizarre primeval fear of salt.

Americans may be drinking fewer alcoholic beverages, but they are certainly eating more of them than ever before. Wittingly or un.

This has got to be the most expensive food ever laminated.

The turkeys that most Americans eat for Thanksgiving are turkeys - losers that are mass produced and bland.

I'm going to enjoy this.”“What?” I asked. “Hell?

I had made a friend. My second one in fourteen years. I was on a roll

In America, you have this kind of individualism and in the West, essentially, you have this individualism - this idea of my own personal fulfillment.

It was probably right after I made my comeback - after retiring post-2008 Olympics - when I finally felt more at ease with my body. Being away from the sport helped put things in perspective.

Here's to our beloved George Washington, the Joshua of America, who commanded the sun and the moon to stand still - and they obeyed.

I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me.

Mama was always saying I was a brain snob, that I didn't like people who didn't think. I didn't know if that was snobby. Who wanted to walk around explaining everything to people all the time?

Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.

You never realize the holes a person leaves behind until you fall into them.

I'll do anything for $50. People are always trying to get me to do dumb things. The possibilities are endless.

Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion.