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

When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.

Anybody who doesn't think that the best hamburger place in teh world is in his home town is a sissy.

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.

Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.

Avoid restaurants with names that are improbable descriptions, such as the Purple Goose, the Blue Kangaroo or the Quilted Orangutan.

Do my ears deceive me, or can I actually hear the sounds of worms turning? You say a turning worm makes no sound? But how about a chorus of turning worms?