Restaurants want to be judged on their intentions - not the results.

Swirls of antique stained glass, blazes of brass, forests of carved wood and waterfalls of crystal combine to make up the city's most fabulously festive interior.

Before long it will be the animals who do the dieting so that the ultimate consumer does not have to.

romances and marriages are usually over long before they are over.

Tomato and lettuce-especially lettuce-is an abomination.

I'm too young to be this old.

It's much tougher to be a restaurant critic now. You have to take a subway out to Brooklyn. I wouldn't want to do it.

If it is true, as used to be said, that oversalting means the cook is in love, at least one cook at Le Cirque must be head over heels.

Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.

It looks good when you see someone kicking at the age of 51 with no double. It's kinda cool for people to know that past 50 we can keep flexible.

You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play - the delicacy and the rigor and the courage.

I have sinned against You, my Lord, and I would ask that your precious blood would wash and cleanse every stain until it is in the seas of God's forgiveness.

Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.

Be fully present for five minutes every day.

Perfect happiness, by princes sought, Is not with birth born, nor exchequers bought.

Before a man's forty, girls cost nothing. After that you have to pay money, or tell a story. Of the two, it's the story that hurts most. Anyway I'm not forty yet.

You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.

I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy but I don't - life is a blessing.