Japanese food is very pretty and undoubtedly a suitable cuisine in Japan, which is largely populated by people of below average size. Hostesses hell-bent on serving such food to occidentals would be well advised to supplement it with something more substantial and to keep in mind that almost everybody likes french fries.

There were a zillion bad jobs. That doesn't exist any more. I mean, I could wake up one afternoon with zero money and know that by the end of the day, I would have money.

Writers get exactly the right amount of fame: just enough to get a good table in a restaurant but not enough so that people are constantly interrupting you while you're eating dinner.

Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.

I am alternately very gregarious - very sociable - and then very solitary.

I don't like to read nonfiction. To me, fact is something I can look up.

In Rome people spend most of their time having lunch. And they do it very well - Rome is unquestionably the lunch capital of the world.