You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

Breakfast is everything. The beginning, the first thing. It is the mouthful that is the commitment to a new day, a continuing life.

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.

The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.

A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo's compliment and fishy as a chancellor's promise.

The reason that chefs become chefs is that they're not allowed into rooms with windows.

Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.

Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.

Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't.

Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail.

Twin miracles of mascara, her eyes looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff.

I think you know, to not open your mind to television is silly because there's so much good work happening on television.

There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do.

Aristotle could have known so much more if he cooked.

I must have been Cinderella. It was nice...I was so happy...I guess it's already midnight.

Rashly, nor ofttimes truly, doth man pass judgment on his brother; for he seeth not the springs of the heart, nor heareth the reasons of the mind.

Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living

If we were never depressed we should not be alive; it is the nature of a crystal never to be depressed.