Fine cooking is when the things you have cooked taste as they are

In cooking, as in all the arts, simplicity is the sign of perfection.

Make [food] simple and let things taste of what they are.

Cuisine is when things taste like themselves.

A garlic caress is stimulating. A garlic excess soporific.

In great quantity, madame. In great quantity.

If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.

I think [nancy Reagan] was a very controlled and controlling person, because she was so scared all the time and because she had such an inner sense of panic.

Boogity, boogity boogity! Let’s go racing boys!

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

Guantanamo is a chief recruiting tool for al-Qaida. It has put a wedge between the United States and at least some of its allies.

Bad reviews I've gotten never diminished the number of people in my audience; good reviews have never added to the number of people in my audience; be your own critic.

I think everybody wants to make a difference in some way.

I think golf is a waste of time and a waste of a sunny afternoon. I also stink at it. I have never found anything, including divorce and a sexual harassment suit, more frustrating.

The only thing that I haven't done is perform brain surgery on myself. I've been very, very lucky. I've spared Shakespeare undue stress by not doing that.

The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a rule, Who are but weasels fighting in a hole.