As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.

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

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.

Given the clientele, the restaurants on Capri might resemble those fancy Northern Italian places on the East Side of Manhattan where the captain has taken bilingual sneering lessons from the maitre d' at the French joint down the street and the waiter, whose father was born in Palermo, would deny under torture that tomato sauce has ever touched his lips.

Before I was born [my father] wanted me to go specifically to Yale, which he thought would help. It was easy for him to think I could be president: he didn't have to worry about being president himself, being ineligible because he wasn't born in the United States.

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