Here are some questions I am constantly noodling over: Do you splurge or do you hoard? Do you live every day as if it's your last, or do you save your money on the chance you'll live twenty more years? Is life too short, or is it going to be too long? Do you work as hard as you can, or do you slow down to smell the roses? And where do carbohydrates fit into all this? Are we really all going to spend our last years avoiding bread, especially now that bread in American is so unbelievable delicious? And what about chocolate?

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Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape.

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That's another thing about being a certain age that I've noticed: I try as much as possible not to look in the mirror.

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Take notes. Everything is copy.

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Most of us live our lives devoid of cinematic moments.

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And so, Thanksgiving. Its the most amazing holiday. Just think about it — it's a miracle that once a year so many millions of Americans sit down to exactly the same meal as one another, exactly the same meal they grew up eating, and exactly the same meal they ate a year earlier. The turkey. The sweet potatoes. The stuffing. The pumpkin pie. Is there anything else we all can agree so vehemently about? I don't think so.

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Eat every meal as if it's your last; when the last one comes, you probably won't be very hungry.

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I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times.

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Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.

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Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.

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