The phrase 'blue plate special' has always been one of the homiest, coziest, most sweetly nostalgic phrases in the English language for me.

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

I don't know what 'operational control' of the border means, but I do understand the English language. And as I understand that phrase, that's not true. We do not have operational control.

'Blue Plate Special' is the autobiography of my first half-century of life, with food as the subject.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.