The noncook is in a helpless position, much like that of the car owner who can’t change a tire and has to depend on mechanics to keep his automobile running.

Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch.

Sichuan food would not be Sichuanese without the hot chilies that arrived before 1700 from South America.

Arthur Rimbaud was a disreputable, mean, ruthless, perverse, hateful wretch. He was also one of the greatest poets who ever lived.

Only the river is free, always changing but always the same.

Hope could not outlast the breather. Love, however . . . Love was something not even death could conquer, because at the end of everything, even life, he was hers.

O LORD God give us a heart to heed to thy holy word.

You walk around feeling like a teenager and immortal your whole life, and suddenly there isn't much time left.

What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.

The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.

The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion.

The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn’t mean that something is wrong. What a relief.

Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively.

We shouldn't even need the word 'atheism'. If people didn't invent ridiculous imaginary gods, rational people wouldn't have to deny them.

There is only the here and now. The past is gone, forgotten.