I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.

When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying the food with the dexterity of a croupier.

Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.

Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.

Cooking done with care is an act of love.

Almost every profession has an outstanding training ground. The military has West Point, music has Juilliard, and the culinary arts has The Institute.

He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.

There is nothing better on a cold wintry day than a properly made pot pie.

The degree of freedom we enjoy outwardly is a reflection of the degree of love we cultivate inwardly.

The human race can be roughly divided into two categories: ailurophiles and ailurophobes - cat lovers and the underprivileged.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.

Truth doesn't have to be liked. It only has to be spoken. Speak it out. The truth may hurt you, but it will set you free.

I like writing flawed women, and being one, its something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. I'd say what any decent poet would say if anyone dared ask him to analyze his work: if you see it, darling, then it's there!

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

Filing is concerned with the past; anything you actually need to see again has to do with the future.

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.