“The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.”

“Health food makes me sick.”

“Daddy, how come in Kansas City the bagels taste like just round bread?”

“Because a superior fried-chicken restaurant is often the institutional extension of a single chicken-obsessed woman, I realize that, like a good secondhand bookstore or a bad South American dictato...”

“In the rather informal survey I have taken over the years on intensity of interest in food by profession, lawyers rank only a few trades below concert pianists....”

“...the existential paradox we all experience; we feel that we are immortal, yet we know that we will die.”

“Well, I'm not a big sports fan.”

“I'm a Luddite with computers, and I'm slightly worried about being hacked as well.”

“I've always eaten well and have a balanced diet.”

“I get very into my sports.”

“I'm very positive - music-wise, production-wise and life-wise.”

“The superfluous, a very necessary thing.”