I’ve long said that if I were about to be executed and were given a choice of my last meal, it would be bacon and eggs.

The only thing that will make a souffle fall is if it knows you're afraid of it.

The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it… If you’re convinced that cooking is drudgery, you’re never going to be good at it, and you might as well warm up something frozen.

If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork.

Too many simple green salads suffer from a lack of imagination.

When you cook, you never stop learning. That's the fascination of it all.

I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking.

Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.

There is absolutely no substitute for the best. Good food cannot be made of inferior ingredients masked with high flavor. It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.

The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it.

Too few people understand a really good sandwich.

He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.

We all remember people the way we want to remember them.

please, Tana, please.' -lots of characters in The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

...the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world. t

She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.

We will do whatever we could do to keep Greece inside the euro and inside Europe.

I have always been a great dreamer; in dreams I am more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of health and energy.

Protecting Americans from harm goes beyond police and national defense. It's imperative that we not destroy the commons, the physical environment on which we rely.

O Allah, You know that the only thing I want in this life Is to be obedient to Your command. Even the living sight of my eyes Is service at your court

When you're making an album with people who made your favorite records as a rebellious teenager, it feels like you've achieved something.