As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.

But I don't want nutrition. I want food!

Dawn comes slowly but dusk is rapid.

There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.

The first gathering of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be mine?

Experience is never at bargain price.

What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander, but it is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the Guinea hen.

In the menu, there should be a climax and a culmination. Come to it gently. One will suffice.

Illness sets the mind free sometimes to roam and surmise.

the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.

Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.

We must speak truth to power and confront ignorance with facts.

Where do you go when you die twice-lest a thousand deaths?

Sometimes it’s just a matter of letting go and getting on with life.

When somebody tells you nothing is impossible ask him to dribble a football.

Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation... about where you fit in society.

I sing around the house, in the shower

We generally get the evil we expect.

Everything happens for me, not to me.

This outward spring and garden are a reflection of the inward garden.

The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long.