Gleaming skin; a plump elongated shape: the eggplant is a vegetable you'd want to caress with your eyes and fingers, even if you didn't know its luscious flavor.

It's never about what YOU want.

A recipe is not meant to be followed exactly - it is a canvas on which you can embroider.

A cook is creative, marrying ingredients in the way a poet marries words.

There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.

Every great achiever nurtures a positive mindset.

MDMA, it was beginning to be apparent, could be all things to all people.

I want to just go back to being the person I was before, but you can't stop being the person you've become. You just have to keep going forward.

We all want to have a place where we can dream and escape anything that wraps steel bands around our imagination and creativity.

An ill labourer quarrells with his tooles.

Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.

I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.

As the Prussian historian Treitschke later complained, the proponents of free trade in Hamburg had 'in German fashion made out of necessity not just a virtue but a theory'.