I'm not wild about those twenty-four hour marinades

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.

When the heart is heavy, the hands crave work

A woman that knows her worth doesn't measure herself against another woman but stands strong, calmed and self confident.

You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.

What counts in the end is what the government does.

Nobody believes in ghosts, but everybody is afraid of them.

I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest.

You can work, shop, do everything from home, and I find this unsettling.

Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues.

Remorse weeps tears of blood.

Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry... and he's a mass murderer.