The price of purity is purists.

What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.

Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.

Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoverished dermatologist.

If Lincoln freed the slaves and preserved the Union, how come 'Lincolnesque' just means tall?

A new regulation for the publishing industry: "The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was discussed.