Rex StoutThinkers

Chili is a food which, eaten with corn bread, sweet onion, and sour cream, contains all five of the elements deemed essential by the sages of the Orient: sweet, sour, salty, pungent, and bitter.

Chili is one of the great peasant foods and one of the few contributions America has made to world cuisine.

The Cookbook is, other than the detective novel, the only kinds of books could earn an American writer a living.

Marriage is empty without quarelling — what makes a marriage last is to continue to have things to argue about.

Quarreling is important — what makes a marriage last is to continue to have things to argue about.

Statistics is of two kinds, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.