I think you can tell the food is close to my heart, too, because I'm doing what I do best.

Pasta doesn't make you fat. How much pasta you eat makes you fat.

I spent time at my grandfather Dino's gourmet store where he brought in chefs from Naples to cook. I thought of them as rock stars.

The holidays stress people out so much. I suggest you keep it simple and try to have as much fun as you can.

Food brings people together on many different levels. It's nourishment of the soul and body; it's truly love.

I'm into very colorful food. Obviously lots of flavor, but I think we eat with our eyes first, so it has to look great. The presentation has to be great.

When I was a kid, for my birthday every year, my mother made me pasta bechamel, which is rigatoni with a white cream sauce.

My grandfather gave me inspiration to cook, and love food and flavors. My Aunt Raffie, gave me creativity and the inspiration to create new things. My mother inspires me to find simplicity in food.

I grew up in the kitchen, mostly with my grandfather, my mother and my aunt Raffy.

Opportunities present themselves and you have to enjoy the ride. All of us get so worried about the next step that we don't enjoy the moment we're in right now.

You just need a little perspective. Warmed chocolate can give you that.

There is a difference between fresh and weird. You never want to throw your reader out of the story. Keep it fresh but natural.

Old men and far travellers may lie with authority.

In the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure.

I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.

From a hundred rabbits you can't make a horse.

The best way to make money in business is not to think too much about making it.

People can get blinded by a sense of being comfortable or feeling secure, but that's quite a cynical point of view.

He is conscious only of God...To be conscious of knowing God is to know about God and self.

We are living in the United States of Alzheimer's. A whole country has lost its memory. When it can't remember yesterday, a country forgets what it once wanted to be.

There's a power in words. There's a power in being able to explain and describe and articulate what you know and feel and believe about the world, and about yourself.