I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

I think the inner person is the most important.... I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's what is important.

I don't use the word gourmet. The word doesn't mean anything anymore. 'Gourmet' makes it sound like someone is putting sherry wine in the corn-flake casserole.

I'm afraid that surprise, shock, and regret is the fate of authors when they finally see themselves on the page.

Pro-choice is the only way to be-- because women are human beings, after all, and should be treated as such.

The dinner hour is a sacred, happy time when everyone should be together and relaxed.

I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.