Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth.

What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.

I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.

Health food makes me sick.

Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.

When someone reaches middle age, people he knows begin to get put in charge of things, and knowing what he knows about the people who are being put in charge of things scares the hell out of him.

It was a given in our family that my father was a grocer so that I wouldn't have to be.