I could not possibly be in a relationship now for more than six days. When I was younger, I might have said six months, although I think the longest relationship I was ever in was three years.

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Raisins are a thing that lasts, they come in small boxes, and you always feel like eating raisins, even at six in the morning. A raisin is always an appropriate snack.

If food did not exist it would be well-nigh impossible to get certain types off the phone, as one would be unable to say, 'Look, I've got to run but let's have dinner sometime soon.'

When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody.

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.

People have been cooking and eating for thousands of years, so if you are the very first to have thought of adding fresh lime juice to scalloped potatoes try to understand that there must be a reason for this.