I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.
When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it there with beautiful clarity.
He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and he was translating for a doctor who had a number of Russian patients. On my way home, after running into him, I just heard this phrase in my head.