Italy is good in the sense that when you bring a child to a restaurant in Italy, they're happy to see it. The waiters will say "complimenti" and welcome you and dote after the kid. They don't treat you like you just brought in this horrible probably soon-to-be-squealing creature who's going to be difficult.

If you have a good experience in a restaurant, you tell 2 people. If you have a bad experience, you tell 10 people.

In that sense, what a great way to live, if you could always do things that interest you, and do them with people who interest you.

I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.

Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone gaga over 'holistic medicine' and 'alternative Chinese cures.

Without Montreal, Canada would be hopeless.