The smell of roasting meat together with that of burning fruit wood and dried herbs, as voluptuous as incense in a church, is enough to turn anyone into a budding gastronome

True gastronomy is making the most of what is available, however modest.

Coffee is a fleeting moment and a fragrance.

Everything tastes better outdoors.

Thanks be to God for his timely provisions.

Another lover hits the universe. The circle is broken. But with death comes rebirth. And like all lovers and sad people, I am a poet.

She's not quite making sense, but no one does all the time.

You have to go out onto the pitch feeling good about yourself. That can give you that extra 30 per cent.

Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush.

I work, to this day, from morning to night, seven days a week. I'm always working two, three years ahead of my own timeline; I'm a workaholic.

For my money, insecurity, depression, etc, can be healed by way of El Morocco, sad songs at 4am, and the pop of a champagne cork

I like anchovies, and I don't tell everybody about them. Almost every time, they don't even notice.

The streets were dark with something more then night.

Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil.