Both happy and sad people can be cheered up by a nice meal.

The sharing of food is the basis of social life, and to many people it is the only kind of social life worth participating in.

A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.

[On television:] It's made people moronic, it's robbed people of their ability to think. It's done tremendous damage, and every single household that has a small child should take it and throw it out the window.

I do not believe that you have to spend a lot of money to eat well: it is hard to beat a plain old baked potato.

On Saturday mornings I would walk to the Flavor Cup or Puerto Rico Importing coffee store to get my coffee. Often it was freshly roasted and the beans were still warm. Coffee was my nectar and my ambrosia: I was very careful about it. I decanted my beans into glass...and I ground them in little batches in my grinder.

Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures.