I refuse to eat a fried egg if the white is still runny or transparent. I really can't be doing it. I always have to flip it over.

Some people do get nervous about cooking for me, others just get extremely irritated by my interfering.

Taxi drivers are the ones who pay me the most attention. They seem to be into River Cottage and have a dream of moving to the country, so I have chats with them.

I'm a generous host, but I'm a difficult and interfering guest. When I go around to other people's houses and they're cooking, I'm always telling them what to do.

Hope was like frogs praying for wings so they didn't bump their asses when they hopped

If in fact it’s not too late to realize that something’s ‘too late’, then there’s a good chance that it’s not.

silence across the field. When they reached the edge of the forest, Claire’s anxiety faded. It really would be easier

We are all regular people, Pia, ’ she laughs. ‘But we are notregular wives.

There is nothing the pop world loves more than a way-out freak.

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

I waste a lot of my time documenting my "search for great esoterica" online. It gets so complicated trying to identify or give credit to all of one's influences.

I bought a house on a one-way dead-end road. I don’t know how I got there.