A person cooking is a person giving. Even the simplest food is a gift.

No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.

A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.

When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally.

People who like to cook like to talk about food....without one cook giving another cook a tip or two, human life might have died out a long time ago.

Lentils are friendly - the Miss Congeniality of the bean world.

And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends.

The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a person giving: Even the simplest food is a gift.

Friendship is not possible between two women one of whom is very well dressed.

We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us.

The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famille.

A year from today, it will be Good if your life is positively different, but GREAT if your life has made a positive difference on others

Can't you home school me?" Nate pleaded. "You would never do any work." (Nate's mom) "Sounds perfect!

I want to be remembered as part of the group of the greatest players ever.

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.

Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid.

Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world; reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it. Only by having reasonremain strong and unshakable can we be called a god of the earth.

When critics ask you if you feel vindicated by other critics - I didn't like critics then, and I don't like them now. There you go. I've always been outside the mainstream, and it stayed that way.

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

People who love each other can no more keep from communicating than from breathing. —Elana

Don't get down on yourself when you get rejection letters.