romances and marriages are usually over long before they are over.

Swirls of antique stained glass, blazes of brass, forests of carved wood and waterfalls of crystal combine to make up the city's most fabulously festive interior.

Before long it will be the animals who do the dieting so that the ultimate consumer does not have to.

Tomato and lettuce-especially lettuce-is an abomination.

I'm too young to be this old.

It's much tougher to be a restaurant critic now. You have to take a subway out to Brooklyn. I wouldn't want to do it.

If it is true, as used to be said, that oversalting means the cook is in love, at least one cook at Le Cirque must be head over heels.

Restaurants want to be judged on their intentions - not the results.

The media can be a really strong vehicle.

Pain makes hens and poets cackle.

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

I had a history for starting something and maybe getting halfway done. Then I'd see the same thing I was doing on the bestseller list! My ideas were right, but I hadn't done them fast enough.

You can't make a movie about the artist without shooting outdoors.

Political renegades always start their career of treachery as 'the best men of all parties' and end up in the Tory knackery.

Sometimes what I'm writing is more important to me than the rest of my life. It's more important to me that I'm writing well than anything else.

A good deed is the best prayer.

When you insist someone submit to your will, it is accomplished most easily if you give them a small victory so they can retain their dignity while they do as you insist. ~ Kahlan Mother Confessor

A herd of prairie-wolves will enter a field of melons and quarrel about the division of the spoils as fiercely and noisily as so many politicians.