I can't be on the cheeseburger diet all the time.

I love the culture of grilling. It creates an atmosphere that is festive but casual.

Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course.

A grill is just a source of heat. Just like a stove, it is very user-friendly.

Cooking is a subject you can never know enough about. There is always something new to discover.

I'd love to visit Thailand just for the street food and the energy of a city like Bangkok.

I love using gas grills because they are easier to heat and it's much easier to control the flames with a gas grill than with a charcoal fire. Grilling is not just about lighting a fire.

Take risks and you'll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed.

Grilling takes the formality out of entertaining. Everyone wants to get involved.

I probably use my chef's knives more than any other tool in the kitchen. I'm not married to a particular brand, because they all work, they all have sharp blades.

Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer.

When hope turns dark, I will bring the sun to light it, I shall guide, protect thee, For I am the human spirit.Poem: God’s Dream, in ‘Chameleon Lights

If you can't stomach an ending, don't begin.

Scars speak for you. They say you're strong, and you've survived something that might have killed others.

For him (LBJ) food was not an indulgence but and intoxicant, an object he reached for to fill a gaping void, one he could never fill up.

Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet.

The fear factor actually brings the genuineness.

Intuition is a strong feminine quality.

Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

It is a strange form of anger, difficult to cure, when two friends turn upon each other in hatred.

By the second tour I had rice cakes and hummus with me, and I was jumping rope in my room.