Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner

Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.

Plain fresh bread, its crust shatteringly crisp. Sweet cold butter. There is magic in the way they come together in your mouth to make a single perfect bite.

One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don't know how to do, to keep learning.

...it was so rich and exotic I was seduced into taking one bite and then another as I tried to chase the flavors back to their source.

...in the end you are the only one who can make yourself happy. More important, ...it is never too late to find out how to do it.

She was a great cook, but she cooked more for herself than for other people, not because she was hungry but because she was comforted by the rituals of the kitchen.

It is not 'only' food, I said heatedly. There's meaning hidden underneath each dish.

When a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end.

Life is so endlessly delicious

I had done this. I had pulled my life apart. I would never, ever be safe again.

If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead.

Pray. Smile. Repeat.

If we tried to write about politics, you'd realize that we're all a bunch of idiots.

When working on a project, if you put away a tool that you're certain you're finished with, you will need it instantly.

Hillary Clinton tries to reset, it failed. They all tried. But I'm different than those people. Go ahead.

To stop thought, you have to go above it. We are collecting energy. When it is freed, it is like a flood and the water will rise and we are in altered states of attention.

I come from Somalia. We start working young, and we understand that kind of life. I would be bored to death not doing anything creative.

More apparent to Teamster members than any moral lapses were the tangible gains that had been steadily realized under Hoffa since his advent to power.

There is great unanimity among the dissolute. [Lat., Magna inter molles concordia.]

When you make movies based on real life, you try to exaggerate it.