Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets -- 'piccoli segreti' -- that are simmering on the burners.

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

Any woman can look her best if she feels good in her skin. It's not a question of clothes or makeup. It's how she sparkles.

I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.

You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.

The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need.

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know the second is to find out who will tell you.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Most of the big money people don't know what would interest an audience if you did it. They only know what interested the audience last time.

Dying is not a crime.

People in life, when they have a tendency to exaggerate or lie or whatever, you always sort of notice that their voice goes up quite high.

I'm not a huge fan of horror movies myself because I'm a big baby and I get too scared to watch them.

It's really interesting to go back to '93 or '94 and listen to that music, like the I'll Lead You Home record

The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare.

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.