I don't use the word gourmet. The word doesn't mean anything anymore. 'Gourmet' makes it sound like someone is putting sherry wine in the corn-flake casserole.

Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

A party without cake is really just a meeting.

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

People who love to eat are always the best people.

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

It was better to leave the space empty of words than to choose the wrong ones.

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

The future is a great land.

Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

I am made of God, through his Grace. Such that your misery touches me not, Nor does flame of that burning assail me.

Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.

As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.

The greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory

If you're a so-called minority writer, the temptation is to write for the majority... I refuse to do that.

Creativity takes a hit when people in a work group compete instead of collaborate.