Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant.
A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.
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.
We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.
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.
I do believe it is the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics for the World Trade Center Tower Seven, building seven, which collapsed in on itself.
Sure! Why should any experts be the arbiters. . . That's like telling someone they can't be a vegetarian.
Completing a piece of art and using all of the elements of making a film, was satisfying, for sure.
To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.