"The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists"

"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body"

"Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature"

"What is food to one man is bitter poison to others"

"In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft"

"The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small"

"I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food"

"I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead"

"Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets"

"Skiing is better than sex actually, because for me a good round of sex might be seven minutes. Skiing you can do for seven hours"

"Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied"