Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.

your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.

Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.

To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.

No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.

Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever

I, a product of the New Frontier and Great Society, honestly believed that the world pretty much owed me a living--all I had to do was wait around in order to live better than my parents.

So I didn't have time to craft artful lies and evasions even if I'd wanted to.

He doesn't yearn for a better, different life than the one he has - because he knows he's got a home in this one.

The silence isn't so bad, till I look at my hands and feel sad. Because the spaces between my fingers are right where yours fit perfectly.

There is less danger in fearing too much than too little.

It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights.

Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any.

I don't spend most of my life in front of the media.

I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.

What's one more torpedo in a sinking ship.

I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.

I just never give up. I fight to the end. You can't go out and say, 'I want a bag of never-say-die spirit.' It's not for sale. It has to be innate.

Misers take care of property as if it belonged to them, but derive no more benefit from it than if it belonged to others.