Mayonnaise, like hollandaise, was invented by the French to cover up the flavor of spoiled flesh, stale vegetables, rotten fish. Beware the sauce! Where food comes beslobbered with an elegant slime you may well suspect the integrity of the basic ingredients.

Humility is a virtue when you have no other.

Democracy -- rule by the people -- sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America.

Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.

The world is what it is, no less and no more, and therein lies its entire and sufficient meaning.

Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.

New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?