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

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

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

Why can’t I just eat my waffle?

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

I don’t have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what’s appropriate or attractive.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

I did this book ‚Harvest for Hope,‘ and I learned so much about food. And one thing I learned is that we have the guts not of a carnivore, but of an herbivore. Herbivore guts are very long because they have to get the last bit of nutrition out of leaves and things.

You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

No, I can’t do rap music!

I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous – that is to say, it’s obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do.

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

Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

‚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 headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

I’m not a chick-flick enthusiast.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

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

We pay attention to every demographic in every country, so we’re going to focus on building things that teens are going to like, and we’re also going to focus on building things that other folks are going to like.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

I’m not big on flak jackets and tie-dyed shirts. You know, that’s not me.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer’s day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

I eat steak primarily. That’s pretty much what my diet consists of. Sometimes I supplement that with other steaks.

I’ve always found, give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers, and I do better with that than I do with torture.

I like the language in Proust but not the context.

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

I’m a really particular person. I want it my way.

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 don’t generally read reviews.

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.

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

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.

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

We never repent of having eaten too little.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.

Fame is like caviar, you know – it’s good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

I am not a fan of books.

I’m very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.

I won’t eat anything green.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.

You just feel a little odd when you don’t get your kind of food. Fortunately, there are Indian restaurants all over the world.

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody’s afraid of French fries.

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.

Regardless of what our national credit rating is, people will always want a roof over their heads, food on their tables, fuel for their cars, and clothes on their backs.

I don’t even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.

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

The boys know they’re from Southeast Asia, and they have their food and their music and their friends, and they have a pride particular to them.

I think about food literally all day every day. It’s a thing.

I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.