Americans are just beginning to regard food the way the French always have. Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening.

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

I didn't go on dialysis because I was 81 years old and I'd done everything I wanted, or so I thought.

I'm working when I'm fighting with my wife. I constantly ask myself-how can I use this stuff to literary advantage.

I learned quickly that when I made others laugh, they liked me.

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

I contemplated suicide. My main concern was that I would not make the New York Times obituary page.