A cook is creative, marrying ingredients in the way a poet marries words.

Gleaming skin; a plump elongated shape: the eggplant is a vegetable you'd want to caress with your eyes and fingers, even if you didn't know its luscious flavor.

It's never about what YOU want.

A recipe is not meant to be followed exactly - it is a canvas on which you can embroider.

Life needs a constant change, minds needs the constant change, only thing that is permanent in the world is change.

I am always in touch with my demons: you never know when their assistence is needed.

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

I spent a lot of time behind the Iron Curtain, and their cars were abysmal.

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

Only through women’s full and equal participation in all areas of public and private life can we hope to achieve the sustainable, peaceful and just society promised in the United Nations Charter.

The world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters.

The only reason people die, is because EVERYONE does it. You all just go along with it. It's RUBBISH, death. It's STUPID. I don't want nothing to do with it.

I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.

...it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the other available religions.