...the existential paradox we all experience; we feel that we are immortal, yet we know that we will die.
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 dictatorsh...
Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.
If law school is so hard to get through how come there are so many lawyers?
I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
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.
With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.
There's always a source for humor.
When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as polit...
Health food makes me sick.
I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.
If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.
The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.
We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.