The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th centurys first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War.

Food is a gift and should be treated reverentially--romanced and ritualized and seasoned with memory.

With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.

Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed.

Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine. . .and then make them plausible.

But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.

He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not.

And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.

He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.

We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven.

No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive.

Getting fit is all about mind over matter. I don't mind, so it doesn't matter.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

I have been very blessed in my life and rewarded with good friends and good health. I am grateful and happy to be able to share this.

We eat when we're full, and we hoard all the rest. With our hands on remotes, we say, yes, we're the best.

Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce.

I don't really care what the man on the street thinks. I never did anything to please him in the first place, and I'm not going to start now.

The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around '84 or '85.

People's clothes ought to be buried with them.

Because one has to be an optimist to begin an ambitious project, it is not surprising that underestimation of completion time is the norm.

We're all standing on the shoulders of what other people have done. But you're supposed to take that and add your own sauce. It can be intimidating, believe me.