A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe.
I write at high speed because boredom is bad for my health.
A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I have to work with, to play with, to suffer and to enjoy. It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but of my own. I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself.
Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.
Work is much more fun than fun.
We're fighting a war on terror because the enemy attacked us first, and hit us hard. . . . Al Qaeda's leadership has said they have the right to kill four million Americans,. . . For nearly six years now, the United States has been able to defeat their attempts to attack us here at home. Nobody can guarantee that we won't be hit again.
beware of your most implacable enemy-yourself.
Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.
I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.