I'm afraid that surprise, shock, and regret is the fate of authors when they finally see themselves on the page.

Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured.

Good french cooking cannot be produced by a zombie cook.

If variety is the spice of life, then my life must be one of the spiciest you ever heard of. A curry of a life. -Paul Child

...The more I learned the more I realized how very much one has to know before one is in-the-know at all.

I discovered that when one follows the artist's eye one sees unexpected treasures in so many seemingly ordinary scenes.

In France, Paul explained, good cooking was regarded as a combination of national sport and high art, and wine was always served with lunch and dinner. "The trick is moderation, " he said.

Really, there was only one sensible thing to do. Stay the course. Pray it through, day by day, minute by minute. The Lord had an answer and it would surely come. (p. 203)

The ultimate truth is penultimately a falsehood.

History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives; let us not neglect the opportunity.

What happened to the American Dream? It came true! You're lookin' at it

In prayer, more is accomplished by listening than by talking.

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

If you ever heard that old saying, where there's smoke there's fire; well that's a load of bull.

I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.

Ive been on one TV series after another. None of the network decisions have ever made sense to me.