For the socially timid, the kitchen is the place to be. At least, it is a place to start.

No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.

A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.

When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally.

People who like to cook like to talk about food....without one cook giving another cook a tip or two, human life might have died out a long time ago.

Lentils are friendly - the Miss Congeniality of the bean world.

And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends.

The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a person giving: Even the simplest food is a gift.

Friendship is not possible between two women one of whom is very well dressed.

A person cooking is a person giving. Even the simplest food is a gift.

We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us.

We're all entitled to our different likes and dislikes. Imagine the world if we all liked the same things.

As long as there is life, my dear friends, laughter will be the weapon of we who mock it even as we struggle to understand it.

There's no use in weeping, Though we are condemned to part: There's such a thing as keeping, A remembrance in one's heart.

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.

We can make America a clean-energy super-power and create good-paying jobs in the process.

Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.

Freedom is still the most radical idea of all.

To the people here, we are outsiders. Foreigners.

It's not so much that I enjoy screenwriting, though mostly I do, but the difference is, with adaptations, somebody else has done the hard part - made up a story, provided the characters.

A writer is always working.