another huge loss for New Orleans. You think you lose big when you lose your house, but here we lose a person, a person that could help us uplift everything. |
Austin always had that dumb old hat on. I always wished he'd get a new one, but he kept the old one. I don't know if it was a good luck charm or what. |
Chairs are not pretty when they're empty. Chairs are pretty when you have people in them! |
I like feeding people, |
It was just good old Creole food, good old-time New Orleans food. And he was good, damn good. You couldn't fry a chicken better than Austin. You couldn't stuff a pepper better than Austin Leslie. |
That's been my whole life, and I'm not going to change, ... There've been a lot of problems solved in that dining room over a bowl of gumbo. There will be a lot more. |
You still have to live, |
You went to nothing overnight, nothing. |