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

[Bachelors'] approach to gastronomy is basically sexual, since few of them under seventy-nine will bother to produce a good meal unless it is for a pretty woman.

In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone.

I cannot count the good people I know who to my mind would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers.

Write one good clean sentence and put a period at the end of it. Then write another one.

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

A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet: he has no need for it, being filled as he is with a God-given and intelligently self-cultivated sense of gastronomical freedom.