Feb. 8, 2010
"I think I could kiss him."

Tom Benson, about Sean Payton, Feb. 7, 2010.

Feb. 7, 2010
Red, red wine
It's up to you
All I can do, I've done
But memories won't go
No, memories won't go

"Red, Red Wine," by Neil Diamond, on "Just For You," 1968.

Feb. 6, 2010
I like to go out – which includes traveling; I can’t write when I travel. I like to talk. I like to listen. I like to look and to watch. Maybe I have an Attention Surplus disorder. The easiest thing in the world for me is to pay attention.

Susan Sontag, as quoted in “The Writer’s Desk,” 1996.

Feb. 5, 2010
Senses never forget.

Sapporo Beer ad, 2003.

Feb. 4, 2010
"Sure, sure I heard of grits. I just actually never seen a grit before."

Joe Pesci as Vinny Gambini in "My Cousin Vinny," 1992.

Feb. 3, 2010
Not long into it, he’d cut the lardo into thin slices and, with a startling flourish of intimacy, laid them individually on our tongues, whispering that we needed to let the fat melt in our mouths to appreciate its intensity...No one that evening had knowingly eaten pure fat before (“At the restaurant, I tell the waiters to call it prosciutto bianco”), and by the time Mario had persuaded us to a third helping everyone’s heart was racing.

"Heat," by Bill Buford, 2006.

Feb. 2, 2010
"I couldn't imagine a better fate than a long and lustrous winter."

Bill Murray as Phil in "Groundhog Day," 1993.