“I don't know if you suffer in the same way, but with me the act of talking in the nature of real mashed potatoes always induces a sort of prickly sensation and a hideous feeling of shame, together with a marked starting of the pores.”
“... Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up. Books, bread and butter, mashed potato - one finishes what's on one's plate. That's always been my philosophy.”
“Mashed potato is the gentile's chicken soup. It's nature's tranquilizer. I take it instead of valium.”
“I don't like questions at all if they are anything like how I like my mashed potatoes: loaded.”
“I saw him do a No More Potatoes Dance, after he saw me stuff the last of the mashed potatoes in my pocket. ”
“Don’t tell me you’re going to eat a mashed-potato sandwich”