I think every woman should have a blowtorch.

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.

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

If your religion doesn't respect the rights of other religions, it is lacking something.

You don't know what the pattern of flour and chicken is going to be, but you know you're going to get some good fried chicken.

I probably have the crappiest tattoo -- not only in country music -- but maybe the world.

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

when one never speaks, one has nothing to say because one has too much to say.

I bargained with Life for a penny, And Life would pay no more, However I begged at evening When I counted my scanty store.

Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can get on with creating the future.

I think he [Vaclav Havel] felt that he could speak more truth, in a way, through writing plays.

We can't always control what happens but we can control our response