Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.

How did Italy manage to end up with no Caribbean islands at all? Christopher Columbus took the trouble to discover the Caribbean personally before the end of the fifteenth century. Try to get a decent plate of spaghetti there now.

I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.

We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.

You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.'

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

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