She didn't say anything—at least, not with her mouth. Her eyes told me a different story. The only problem was that they each had a thousand tongues talking, each in a language I didn't speak.

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'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.

Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay for the cost of our expenditures.

It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

I don't think anything will change until Americans revolt and get it into their heads that they need to be informed voters instead of just listening to the paid political ads.

I believe that people will do what is right and good if they are given a chance and are convinced that what they are being asked to do will truly help others.

How good is God! How sweet his yoke!

We're on the cusp, on the brink, of enormous change in this country.

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

Get up very early and get going at once. In fact, work first and wash afterwards.