Son,' my father said to me, 'someday this will all be yours.

I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better.

Teaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy.

You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.

I will say, too, that lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to the serpent to give to Eve. The best idea in that apple, though, is making jazz.

You should be careful about who you pretend to be, because who you pretend to be - is actually who you are!

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.