I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.

I am not a chef. I am not even a trained or professional cook. My qualification is as an eater.

You could probably get through life without knowing how to roast a chicken, but the question is, would you want to?

I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.

You cannot truly say you live well unless you eat well.

Sometimes...we don't want to feel like a postmodern, postfeminist, overstretched woman but, rather, a domestic goddess, trailing nutmeggy fumes of baking pie in our languorous wake.

Sometimes it's good just to be seduced by the particular cheeses spread out in front of you on a cheese counter.

I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble.

I don't believe in low-fat cooking.

I don't believe you can ever really cook unless you love eating.

I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.

If you only read books, how will you read the scripture inside you?

If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you can't learn any other way.--Mark Twain

Growing up as a kid, the back of my house faced a little community airport about four or five miles from my house.

Victory comes late-- And is held low to freezing lips-- Too rapt with frost To take it

Beyond all of this is something else, perfection; not just as an ideation, but as a living reality. Even though it may just be an idea for you, hold that idea in your mind.

I know I'm not exactly a bombshell, but one has to make the best of what one's got.

Whenever I read statistical reports, I try to imagine my unfortunate contemporary, the Average Person, who, according to these reports, has 0.66 children, 0.032 cars, and 0.046 TVs.

A bench in the street can be a good writer because all kind of material comes onto it like a heavy rain!

I am undefinable. I don't fit into any particular category.

Intelligence looks for what is known to solve problems. Creativity looks for what is unknown to discover possibilities.