If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.

Genius is fine for the ignition spark, but to get there someone has to see that the radiator doesn't leak and no tire is flat.

Chili is one of the great peasant foods. It is one of the few contributions America has made to world cuisine. Eaten with corn bread, sweet onion, sour cream, it contains all five of the elements deemed essential by the sages of the Orient: sweet, sour, salty, pungent, and bitter.

Everyone has something they don't want anyone to see; that is one of the functions of a home, to provide a spot to keep such things.

I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion.

The constant petty behests of life permit few opportunities for major satisfactions, and when one is offered it should be seized.

Dignities are like faces; no two are the same.