Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people.

People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week.

Most journalists are restless voyeurs who see the warts on the world, the imperfections in people and places. gloom is their game, the spectacle their passion, normality their nemesis.

The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.

Thirteen years I took on this last book.

Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them.