Occupation: Journalist Birth: December 5, 1935
Perhaps we've time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in..
If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny..
If bumblebee leavings and stump paste are so good for you, why can't any of those guys (in the health stores) grow full beards?.
I suppose that there are endeavors in which self-confidence is even more important than it is in writing -- tightrope walking comes immediately to mi….
Before I was born [my father] wanted me to go specifically to Yale, which he thought would help. It was easy for him to think I could be president: h….
At American weddings, the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom..
Many Texas barbecue fanatics have a strong belief in the beneficial properties of accumulated grease..
When someone reaches middle age, people he knows begin to get put in charge of things, and knowing what he knows about the people who are being put i….
Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place..
I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent..
I've decided to skip 'holistic'. I don't know what it means, and I don't want to know. That may seem extreme, but I followed the same strategy toward….
I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still..
I've written three books you could think of as memoirs..
Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting..
When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery..
As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler..
Following the Romanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away..
Getting a tattoo would probably make me cry..
Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away... Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liqu….
The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out..
It has long been acknowledged that the single best restaurant in the world is Arthur Bryant's Barbecue at Eighteenth and Booklyn in Kansas city..