What is an aristocrat? A woman who is never sullied by vulgarity, although she may be surrounded by it.

The raw tomato, devoured in the garden when freshly picked, is a horn of abundance of simple sensations, a radiating rush in one's mouth that brings with it every pleasure. . . . a tomato, an adventure.

Do you know that it is in your company that I have had my finest thoughts?

...I am an anomaly in the system, living proof of how grotesque it is, and every day I mock it gently, deep within my impenetrable self.

A man who farts in bed . . . is a man who loves life.

Tasting is an act of pleasure and writing about that pleasure is an artistic gesture, but the only true work of art, in the end, is another person's feast.

We never look beyond our assumptions and what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others; we just meet ourselves.