Having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat.

. . . word-sniffing . . . is an addiction, like glue -- or snow -- sniffing in a somewhat less destructive way, physically if not economically. . . . As an addict, I am almost guiltily interested in converts to my own illness . . .

War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist

An oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life.

You may feel that you have eaten too much...But this pastry is like feathers - it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive!

A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet.

Or you can broil the meat, fry the onions, stew the garlic in the red wine...and ask me to supper. I'll not care, really, even if your nose is a little shiny, so long as you are self-possessed and sure that wolf or no wolf, your mind is your own and your heart is another's and therefore in the right place.