I’m evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

You don’t come into cooking to get rich.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.

When ‚Paul’s Boutique‘ came out, I was one of the fans that didn’t get it.

I love food.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

Honestly, I just go to restaurants to eat so I won’t die. If there was a pill I could take in January and then I wouldn’t have to eat again for the rest of the year, I would take it. Of course, I wouldn’t want to sacrifice my chocolate cake and ice cream.

I don’t do research. I never have.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

If I’m in Rome for only 48 hours, I would consider it a sin against God to not eat cacio e pepe, the most uniquely Roman of pastas, in some crummy little joint where Romans eat. I’d much rather do that than go to the Vatican. That’s Rome to me.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it’s such an interesting part of their environment.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

I would say there are some foods that I strongly recommend that you do not eat. No. 1 on that list, I believe, is doughnuts. Comfort food. Zero value. Don’t eat them.

I sincerely believe… that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

I supported Donald Trump.

I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Here’s what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.

America is just downright mean.

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

But, you know, it’s still a drag to get your picture taken when you’re eating a sandwich. It’s a downer.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

I think ‚Invisible‘ is a great song, but I don’t know how accessible it is.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Why can’t I just eat my waffle?

I just don’t like mutual funds. I think they’re a rip-off.

I am such a political person.

I would rather drink weedkiller than support Obamacare.

I don’t believe in nepotism. I don’t much like the idea of parents who interfere.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.

In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

Facts are not interesting to me.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin‘ words.

After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

When I’m back in New York – and this is a terrible thing to complain about – I eat a lot more really, really good food than perhaps I’d like to. So many of my friends are really good chefs. It’s kind of like being in the Mafia.

I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.

I told y’all I didn’t vote, right? But if I would’ve voted, I would’ve voted for Trump.

I sent out a tweet, ‚Dancing with the Stars‘ should stop the jibber jabber. They shouldn’t make the departure of a dancer so tear jerky because nobody’s going to war.

Obviously, I’m no fan of the radical left.

‚Kitchen Confidential‘ wasn’t a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia.

I don’t like the intellectual label.

Those places I don’t understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is so much easier than making bad stuff. It actually takes quite an effort to make poor linguine pomodora.

Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there’s been an Axl Rose. And it’s just boring. It’s totally boring to me.

Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the ‚Wall Street Journal.‘

Acorns were good until bread was found.

With all due respect, I am against dumb.