I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.

The only thing that will make a souffle fall is if it knows you're afraid of it.

The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it… If you’re convinced that cooking is drudgery, you’re never going to be good at it, and you might as well warm up something frozen.

If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork.

Too many simple green salads suffer from a lack of imagination.

When you cook, you never stop learning. That's the fascination of it all.

I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking.

Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.

There is absolutely no substitute for the best. Good food cannot be made of inferior ingredients masked with high flavor. It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.

The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it.

Too few people understand a really good sandwich.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

I really admire the experimentalists who challenge traditional narrative - writers like Ishmael Reed, Michael Martone, Donald Barthelme, Tatyana Tolstaya, George Saunders, and many others.

Most pleasures are best as a seasoning, not the main course. p. 374

A mind concerned about danger is a clouded mind. It's paralyzing.

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

All other days have either disappeared into darkness and oblivion or not yet emerged from it. Today is the only day there is.

A flower is relatively small... Still in a way-nobody sees a flower-so I said to myself-I'll paint it big.

Sometimes it takes just living your life a certain way to be able to open yourself to the rhythm of the cosmos.

It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you.

In living, as in art, rules are drawn from practice; not the other way around.