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

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

None should say : 'I can trust, ' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

Make a real not alibis

There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.

Ninety countries still hold on to capital punishment, and, sadly, one of these is the United States, the only Western industrialized country to practice this barbaric punishment.

Suicide thwarts the plan of the entity which sends out the personality. Fortunately, the entity is far beyond the reach of man's destructive tendencies.

The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.

Have you any idea what it's like to live under the same roof as four women? Armageddon is the best word for it.

The more committees you belong to, the less of ordinary life you will understand. When your daily round becomes nothing more than a daily round of committees you might as well be dead.

What’s the point of being bad when there’s nothing good to stop you?