I am playing the music I love and I really play it from my heart, and whatever the out form is - it doesn't matter whether it's art or music.
We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.
Unlike some people, who love to go out, I love to stay home.
It is always wise to make too much potato salad. Even if you are cooking for two, make enough for five. Potato salad improves with age - that is, if you are lucky enough to have any left over.
That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden: layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one-dimensional.
[On television:] It's made people moronic, it's robbed people of their ability to think. It's done tremendous damage, and every single household that has a small child should take it and throw it out the window.
Woe to those who get what they desire. Fulfillment leaves an empty space where your old self used to be, the self that pines and broods and reflects. You furnish a dream house in your imagination, but how startling and final when that dream house is your own address. What is left to you? Surrounded by what you wanted, you feel a sense of amputation. The feelings you were used to abiding with are useless. The conditions you established for your happiness are met. That youthful light-headed feeling whose sharp side is much like hunger is of no more use to you.
My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co.
Most of the founders of this country had day jobs for years. They were not career politicians. . . . We need leaders with experience in the real world, not experience in the phony world of politics.
Some people have no original ideas because they do not think well enough of themselves to consider their ideas worth noticing and developing.
For one kiss, darling, I swear everything I would give. Cause you're a walking, talking reason to live.