An awful lot of people think it's easy to lift recipes out.

Every day holds the possibility of a miracle.

To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one of the exquisite pleasures of the Mediterranean.

Good food is always a trouble and its preparation should be regarded as a labour of love.

Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the essence of the fleeting moment.

Provence is a country to which I am always returning, next week, next year, any day now, as soon as I can get on a train.

Even more then long hours in the kitchen, fine meals require ingenious organization and experience which is a pleasure to acquire.

I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again.

Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult.

It is a very great mistake to suppose, as a few English cooks still do, that spaghetti and macaroni should be soaked in water before cooking.

I'm very interested in my new kitchen equipment shop. I've started it with two friends.

The more we're thrown into conflict with each other through engineered distrust, the less able we are to unite against those responsible.

When positioning a brand, aggressively avoid becoming a "me too" by assertively being a "who else?

Space tourism is a logical outgrowth of the adventure tourist market.

The U.S. corporate media, otherwise known as the "free press," is that hollow pillar on which contemporary American democracy rests.

The only things I like are either illegal or they make me fat.

Will spread his arms wide. On his knees, grinning like a demon, blood dripping from his mouth, he barely looked human himself. “Come and get me.

Our universe is ruled by random whim, inhabited by people who laugh at logic.

Barack Obama's large contributor was Goldman Sachs - same thing on the Republican side. If you go to both their conventions, you see the same lobbyists paying off both sides so they win either way.

My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library.