She was my first cat ever, and I thought she was marvelous.

Life itself is the proper binge.

I fell in love with the public, the public fell in love with me, and I tried to keep it that way.

We had a happy marriage because we were together all the time. We were friends as well as husband and wife. We just had a good time.

Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is a 300-pound blocking back who has been splitting firewood nonstop for the last twelve hours on a subzero day in Manitoba.

I always give my bird a generous butter massage before I put it in the oven. Why? Because I think the chicken likes it -- and, more important, I like to give it.

No one's more important than people.