Great cooking is all about the three 'p's: patience, presence, and practice.

For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love?

My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition.

In ancient Greece, the word for "cook, " "butcher, " and "priest" was the same -- mageiros -- and the word shares an etymological root with "magic.

We moderns are great compartmentalizers, perhaps never more so than when hungry.

When you make a choice, you change the future.

You know you are a writer when you talk about your characters as if they were real people!

The decisions we make about communication security today will determine the kind of society we live in tomorrow.

In leadership there are always problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. When you try to solve a tension, you create a problem.

Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith.

All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.

The principal person in a picture is light.

Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.

You ought to expect better of people. It encourages you to be a better person yourself.

That combination of thought and action defines creative confidence: the ability to come up with new ideas and the courage to try them out.