Grilled cheese and tomato soup is the ultimate comfort meal.

I like almonds as a snack - keeps your energy up but doesn't fill you up.

Anyone who tries to make brownies without butter should be arrested.

Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.

People have more fun if they don't eat so much they have to be taken home in an ambulance.

You can be miserable before you have a cookie and you can be miserable after you eat a cookie but you can't be miserable while you are eating a cookie.

Fun is the most important. If you do stuff for money, it never works out.

Food is not about impressing people. It's about making them feel comfortable.

Every once in a while, a cookbook comes along that simply knocks me out.

Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.

I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.

A couple of times in your life, it happens like that. You meet a stranger, and all you know is that you need to know everything about him.

To write is human, to receive a letter: Devine!

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact with the Central Intelligence Agency office there.

If the generous ideas of youth are too often over- clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false

God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot.

I've been popular and unpopular successful and unsuccessful loved and loathed and I know how meaningless it all is. Therefore I feel free to take whatever risks I want.

I don't want to lose my name because that's how I know myself. There is a legacy here.

The perfume of natures does not usually come forth without bruising.

You can game the social media in the short run, but not for long.