Why in the world are you a Republican?

Although I grew up in Kansas City, ... I have always kept more or less au courant of Texas barbecue, like a sports fan who is almost monomaniacally obsessed with basketball but glances over at the N.H.L. standings now and then.

I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

The interesting thing about class warfare is that it's only class warfare if it's up, not down. If you talk about welfare cheats or something, that's not class warfare because it's down; you have to talk about rich people before it's class warfare.

I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.

The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.

There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would guess, to eight or nine years of steady mung-bean eating.