I like to create what I call 'tablescapes.' It's so much more fun when you organize your table around a theme, don't you think?

Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.

You don't need to be born with a silver spoon to reach for the brass ring

Sure, you can mix the flour, baking soda, salt, shortening, and the whole nine yards, but why wouldn't you just pull out a box of Bisquick?

One of the things I do in my cookbooks is I will do a conversion from outdoor to indoor grilling so you can do it year-round.

I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candles, which are expensive.

Instead of doing cinnamon, nutmeg, and all those baking spices I'll have one spice that's for sweets, and that's pumpkin pie spice.

As a kid, I thought John Denver was the perfect Prince Charming.

Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen. It's fun whether it's baking bread or cookies. With baking, you have to be exact when it comes to ingredients.

Seventy percent store-bought, ready-made plus 30 percent fresh allows you to take 100 percent of the credit.

Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen.

You are eternal, beautiful, and real.

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.

It is my contention that ritual begins at home, in domestic magic.

He that is fallen cannot helpe him that is downe. [He that is fallen cannot help him that is down.]

Love, after all, was universal. Qhuinn closed his fist up tight, and knew he would never, ever take that ring off. “Always,” Blay murmured. “Because family is an always kind of thing.

No good end exists for any dictator!

Love, life, meaning...over.

When one practices discipline and moves from the beginner's territory to immovable wisdom, one makes a return and falls back to the level of the beginner.

I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it.

For twenty years, Islamic Jihadists have been attacking American interests around the world and we did not take them seriously until September 11th, 2001.