I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.

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.

There is no limit to the amount of intelligence invested in ignorance when the need for illusion runs deep.

She’d gotten through the entire evening without killing anyone. Lieutenant Eve Dallas, cop to the bone, figured the restraint showed enormous strength of character.

Of all the weaknesses that beset a man, vanity is the most deadly. For through vanity can a wise man turn to folly.

The death penalty symbolizes whom we fear and don't fear, whom we care about and whose lives are not valid.

Why should he be spared?' 'Someone ought to be.' And it will not be me. I have survived, but I have not been spared.

Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats?

With any actor, if you know your character well enough, you'll know pretty much what he would say under any circumstance, or whatever situation might rear its head.

I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception.

It is a lot harder when you are 4-1 down than when you are 4-1 up.

He accepts his Personal Legend completely.