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

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.

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.

You're what I've been looking for my whole life, and if you let me, I'll love you for the rest of yours.

The idea is to spin the wheel of metaphors and images until sparks of associations begin to fly for the reader.

People are going to be upset in life no matter what we do, Bexley. Might as well go big or go home. (Jude)

We have all been placed on this earth to discover our own path and we will never be happy if we live someone else's idea of life.

It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in feeling independent. The exalting feeling of being sufficient to oneself comes as a revelation.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs.

What draws me to theater and religion are these rituals made to make you feel emotion. It's so banal in an interesting way. In visual art it's about making you feel emotional, but it's more subtle.

I have begun in old age to understand...that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others.