Cooking and baking are pleasures and I want everyone to be able to experience and share them.

Real French people don't bake! At least they don't bake anything complicated, finicky, tricky or unreliable.

Sometimes I think there are devils at work in the kitchen - recipes that are always perfect sometimes come out less than perfect and I can't figure out why.

I don't know if there's a method that I'd like to see younger people bring back, I just want to see everyone of every age in the kitchen.

The food world is more crowded these days, but I think that there are more opportunities.

Do the work you are most proud of

I often say that eggs and sugar should be beaten until they thicken and pale and sometimes, when there are lots of yolks, that's lemon colored.

When I'm developing a recipe with brown butter - I know how much butter I want in the end and I so I start with more butter than I'll need.

Anything you make in a 'normal' sized loaf pan can be made in the longer pan - you just have to increase the recipe proportionately.

You can use melted butter instead of oil, but your cake may be a little denser.

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

For the first time I could remember, I felt weak, woozy and stupid— like a human-being. Like a very small and helpless human-being.

the focus one finds in the grammar books is on the wrong forms, on forms detached from the underlying (or overarching) form that must be in place before any technical terms can be meaningful or alive

The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.

Their diet is basically boiled vegetables, fish and rice. No fat, no sugar. You notice when you live there that there are no fat people.

Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous

Only if a child feels right can he think right.

We wanted to make something that sounded perfect because of the quality of the emotion...the honesty.

If there were no Carl Perkins, there would be no Beatles.

My favorite type of music to sing is country, and my favorite type of music to listen to is country.