“Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.”

“As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.”

“Wonderful coffee. Meal in itself”

“Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live.”

“Every society is three meals away from chaos”

“A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.”

“One can say everything best over a meal.”

“The meal is not over when I'm full. The meal is over when I hate myself.”

“Bacon makes almost any meal tolerable.”

“He had two subjects of conversation, the shame and come-down of being a tramp, and the best way of getting a free meal.”