[On entering the restaurant business:] Food has the dubious advantage of being legitimate, and one's customers somehow manage to live longer without sex than food, if you call that living.

Beware of people whose halos are on too tight.

Madaming is the sort of thing that happens to you - like getting a battlefield commission or becoming the dean of women at Stanford University.

If you are being run out of town, get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade.

We were so poor we envied everyone we ever heard of.

[On entering the restaurant business:] Food has the dubious advantage of being legitimate, and one's customers somehow manage to live longer without sex than food, if you call that living.

Like I always say, if you sit long enough by the crack of the door, you'll see your enemy go by in a hearse.