I think that what's so interesting about her is that she took to an extreme her embrace of peasant life even though she was a singing and dancing European intellectual.

If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong.

As with all matters of the heart, the odds may not be in our favour but it is the only risk worth taking.

It is easier to wipe a thousand tears from your eyes than to wipe a single tear from your soul.

People turned against each other cannot turn against those responsible.

The Glory of God is lost if the boundary is crossed

Pride would be a lot easier to swallow if it didn't taste so bad.

My epiglottis is full of bees!

There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.

It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunds of gut and gristle to testify to its authenticity.

Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.

I don’t believe in technique, I believe in performance. If you are tough, whether you have technique or not, you’ll survive.