I am not sure about facelifts because I wouldn't want to be someone who just looks like she's had a facelift.

I am not a chef. I am not even a trained or professional cook. My qualification is as an eater.

You could probably get through life without knowing how to roast a chicken, but the question is, would you want to?

I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.

You cannot truly say you live well unless you eat well.

Sometimes...we don't want to feel like a postmodern, postfeminist, overstretched woman but, rather, a domestic goddess, trailing nutmeggy fumes of baking pie in our languorous wake.

Sometimes it's good just to be seduced by the particular cheeses spread out in front of you on a cheese counter.

I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble.

I don't believe in low-fat cooking.

I don't believe you can ever really cook unless you love eating.

I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.

I done many wrong and bad things in my lifeLove by heart and soulTrusted with my whole Devoted my life Keep honesty from the depth of heartNever use mind every decision took by heart.

The French have a term for this brazenness: je m’en foutisme, the brave art of not giving a damn.

May we help more than we hurt, may we seek to understand more than be understood and may we love more than we judge.

You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.

Kindness and courage can repair time's faults, And serving him breeds patience and courtesy In us, light sojourners and passing subjects.

Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.

We're in a time now where technology is such that we can create anything, and that's what's new about television and film these days.

True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done.

Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.

I'm a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody's ready to slit their wrists.