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Sometimes we used to eat once a day... chicken backs. You could buy four chicken backs for a quarter.

Some people would like me to be round again.

When people are told to 'eat many small meals,' what they may actually hear is 'eat all the time,' making them likely to respond with some degree of compulsive overeating. It's no coincidence, I think, that obesity rates began rising rapidly in the 1980s more or less in tandem with this widespread endorsement of more frequent meals.

I'm not going to dinner with somebody who eats like a bird, nor do I want to eat like a bird. But its weird: In our business, I'm a size 2 and considered curvy. Its important to remind young women, 'Listen, even skinny girls have cellulite, even Halle Berry has cellulite, and what you see in photos isn't totally real.'

Each person's body type is different, and they need to understand that food should be eaten in regular portions.

These days, meals are more open to personal preferences. People like to serve themselves.

Restaurants serve huge portions on even huger platters, and people are tempted to eat too much.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything.

Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room. For most, meals were informal, a kind of rolling refueling; often only the men sat down.