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

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

Sometimes, it’s just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert, because frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It’s exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite of vegetables.

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.

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

America is just downright mean.

Oh yes, there’s lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, convenience, and a cheerful embrace of food we know is hurting us.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

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

Who’s to say what’s a good voice and not a good voice?

I supported Donald Trump.

I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.

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

There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M.

I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I’ve managed to gracefully avoid that. It’s hypocritical of me and an arbitrary line, but one that I have managed to avoid crossing.

Steak and Shake in Indianapolis is definitely the first stop when we hit that city.

It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational – and I’m speaking the written science fiction, not ‚Star Trek.‘ Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they’re clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.

So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

‚Love Story‘ is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn’t like him. All of them!

Of course, animals have to be killed for food or to prevent their doing injury to others or to property. But such killing is too often carried out without regard to the pain inflicted.

I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona – no lime. If the phone rings, I won’t answer until I’m done.

The Kobe craze really annoyed me. Most of the practitioners had no real understanding of the product and were abusing it and exploiting it in terrible and ridiculous ways. Kobe beef should not be used in a hamburger. It’s completely pointless.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

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.‘

I’ve never eaten a strawberry in my life. I have no desire to do that.

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they’re just infested with lots of stuff.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

Knowledge is true opinion.

My father opened a restaurant. It’s so amazing… it’s so freaking delicious, but I’m telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.

I’m one of those people who says, ‚yes, cinema died when they invented sound.‘

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

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

Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera – or an NHL game.

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Whatever the reviewers feel about ‚The Casual Vacancy‘, it is what I wanted it to be, and you can’t say fairer than that as a writer.

I won’t eat anything green.

I can’t say this enough – the food that you put into your bodies can actually help you get better grades. And it can also affect your performance in sports and other activities too. You see, when you give your body the best possible fuel, you have more energy, you’re stronger, you think more quickly.

I’m not a sandwich store that only sells turkey sandwiches. I sell a lot of different things.

I don’t think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It’s lonely out here.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

Trump has no sense of shame.

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

Half a truth is better than no politics.

I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

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

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.