Cookery is naturally the most ancient of the arts, as of all arts it is the most important.

Good oil, like good wine, is a gift from the gods. The grape and the olive are among the priceless benefactions of the soil, and were destined, each in its way, to promote the welfare of man.

To remember a successful salad is generally to remember a successful dinner; at all events, the perfect dinner necessarily includes the perfect salad.

The onion tribe is prophylactic and highly invigorating, and even more necessary to cookery than parsley itself.

It has been said of garlic that everyone knows its odor save he who has eaten it, and who wonders why everyone flies at his approach.

The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic force, it sets in motion...elements in the reader that would otherwise remain stagnant.

There is no utter truth or utter falsehood in this world. There is only mostly. Which part of the mostly you choose to accept, well, that much is up to you.

Fortunately in my work there's always a choice: I can choose to do it willingly or unwillingly.

Hillary Clinton called President Assad a "reformer". She called Assad a "different kind of leader". There's now 400,000 now dead... think about that.

I wasn't allowed to speak while my husband was alive, and since he's gone no one has been able to shut me up.

There are so many characters whizzing around inside my head, it's like Looney Tunes. But as soon as I've finished writing about them, I completely forget who they are.

It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.

All of us, all of us, all of us trying to save our immortal souls, some ways seemingly more round about and mysterious than others. We are having a good time here. But hope all will be revealed soon.

When I danced, I felt I was entering the temple of Art.

You never know, life is short but it’s wide