The ultimate truth is like the flavour of an apple which you can't see with the eye or hear with the ear. The only way to experience it is to put the teachings into practice. Once you taste it, you are no longer in any doubt about its flavour and you do not have to ask anyone else. The problem is solved.

Burning logs can carry on quite a conversation! ... Have you ever heard apple wood talking? It's the most loquacious of all. You really can't get a word in edgeways.

Although the frankfurter originated in Frankfurt, Germany, we have long since made it our own, a twin pillar of democracy along with Mom's apple pie. In fact, now that Mom's apple pie comes frozen and baked by somebody who isn't Mom, the hot dog stands alone. What it symbolizes remains pure, even if what it contains does not.

Okay, it was the Tree of Knowledge. "You eat this apple; you're going to be as smart as God." We can't have that.

I love to eat an apple after a meal, just to cleanse my teeth - they always look polished afterwards.

I named my son Noah for the same reason Chris Martin named his apple: we're asses.

I think more than anything, his game-day career was just the coasting part of his life. It was just picking up the harvest. All the apples were already on the tree.

Until Eve gave him the apple, Adam didn't even know he wasn't wearing underpants.

It was between the ages of 14 and 20 and I started off not eating at all, maybe an apple a day.

And who shall say--whatever disenchantment follows--that we ever forget magic; or that we can ever betray, on this leaden earth, the apple-tree, the singing, and the gold?