If I could go into the woods and kill a bear myself, I'd wear it proudly as a trophy.

I am not a chef. I am not even a trained or professional cook. My qualification is as an eater.

You could probably get through life without knowing how to roast a chicken, but the question is, would you want to?

I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.

You cannot truly say you live well unless you eat well.

Sometimes...we don't want to feel like a postmodern, postfeminist, overstretched woman but, rather, a domestic goddess, trailing nutmeggy fumes of baking pie in our languorous wake.

Sometimes it's good just to be seduced by the particular cheeses spread out in front of you on a cheese counter.

I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble.

I don't believe in low-fat cooking.

I don't believe you can ever really cook unless you love eating.

I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.

Scientists are a bunch of romantics.

Open your life wide, and take me in forever. I will never be tired-I will never be noisy when you want to be still...nobody else will see me, but you-but that is enough-I shall not want any more.

I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which is to me attractive.

And I ask him why he cuts his arms with a razor. "Just fo feel. Just to feel something.

...in other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama Interview - March 1964

The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation

But before we face experience, that miserable enemy, let us have some more innocence, just for a while.

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

Many assume my business success has brought me happiness. But the way I see it, I am successful because I am happy.

I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.