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.

As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls) that showed the average shelf life of a trade book to be somewhere between milk and yoghurt.

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

Health food makes me sick.

I'm in favor of liberalizing immigration because of the effect it would have on restaurants. I'd let just about everybody in except the English.

Perhaps we've time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in.

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