I love to roast vegetables - carrots, fennel, and so on. I also love to mash or puree pretty much any vegetable!

Always look for the best ingredients, treat the food you cook with respect, always read the entire recipe first, be organized, and have fun.

Food's delicate. You have to handle it with finesse. You can't just be a big ogre.

I don't think of being a woman in an industry of men. I didn't walk into the kitchen and go, 'Ooh, I'm a girl!' I didn't get into my chosen profession. I wanted to be good at something.

I adore pigs, and I love eating them and cooking them, and I love using the whole animal.

I'm not the type of person to eat big hunks of meat. I think people are starting to realize that great things come in small batches.

I still worry that I could be better. That's where standards come from, from not wanting to settle. The fear of not being good enough propels you.

You can make a difference, wherever you are. It begins with a decision and defined purpose.

No one needs to be around someone who dulls the shine on a brand new penny.

Engagement can be a commitment to love or a declaration of war. One must enter every battle without hesitation, willing to fully engage the enemy until death do you apart.

One of my goals is to inspire everyone I meet to become a better person.

It's funny looking at yourself. You know how it is when you look back at old pictures? It's just funny looking back at yourself walking and talking at age 14

Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.

Politics isn't what defines a person, and it shouldn't define a relationship. I made the mistake of letting that intrude on my relationships.

There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.

The unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed; Night resonance recedes, night-walkers' song After great cathedral gong.