I never graduated, but I was kind of floating between journalism and art, because neither one wanted to claim me, as a cartoonist.

Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy.

Scallops are expensive, so they should be treated with some class. But then, I suppose that every creature that gives his life for our table should be treated with class.

The squid is so cooperative. Its body forms a tube that can be stuffed with marvelous fillings. You don't have to be Greek to enjoy this one.

How can people say they don't eat eggplant when God loves the color and the French love the name? I don't under'stand.

All kids draw some kind of cartoon characters. They just grow out of them, and I didn't

CONTROL MYSELF?!! I'm a MONSTER! Monsters don't control themselves! That's the whole IDEA!

Smiley Bone: You can't feel safe unless there's something to be safe against! Phoney Bone: Exactly! People like to be victims! There's a certain unassailable moral superiority about it.

Serve this dish with much too much wine for your guests, along with some cooked green vegetables and a huge salad. You will be famous in about half an hour.

Feasting is also closely related to memory. We eat certain things in a particular way in order to remember who we are. Why else would you eat grits in Madison, New Jersey?

I don't go for the nouvelle approach - serving a rabbit rump with coffee extract sauce and a slice of kiwi fruit.

Rhetoric is what shapes history, if not truth.

Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and the light are the keenest weapons.

If you love someone, you don't act like they annoy you. You like them, and you try and make them think they're the most important person in the world to you.

Beware of missing chances otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.

I was a disruptive child.

Breaking America's oil addiction would not lead to a future of sackcloth and ashes.

Any performance I do, I give 110 percent.

At least I have precluded the possibility of peaking too early.

We two [Deucalion and Pyrrha, after the deluge] form a multitude. [Lat., Nos duo turba sumus.]

The match the whole world, Jupiter, Saturn , Venus... Or anywhere else is waiting for.