If you go back in American history, oysters were the food of poor people. New York was filled with oyster saloons in the 1800s.

Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.

Plain fresh bread, its crust shatteringly crisp. Sweet cold butter. There is magic in the way they come together in your mouth to make a single perfect bite.

One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don't know how to do, to keep learning.

...it was so rich and exotic I was seduced into taking one bite and then another as I tried to chase the flavors back to their source.

Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner

...in the end you are the only one who can make yourself happy. More important, ...it is never too late to find out how to do it.

She was a great cook, but she cooked more for herself than for other people, not because she was hungry but because she was comforted by the rituals of the kitchen.

It is not 'only' food, I said heatedly. There's meaning hidden underneath each dish.

When a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end.

Life is so endlessly delicious

They both looked at me in a way that was fast becoming familiar: two parts bafflement to one part awe at my talent for making a bad situation worse.

He walked hesitantly toward her and then wrapped his arms around her in a gentle hug.“You just looked like you needed one, ” he said.

Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?

It is the function of the Church to oppose all original experience, because this can only be unorthodox.

The person with a plan, a picture, will go after thoughts that add value to their thinking.

In order to lead a fascinating life, one brimming with art, music, intrigue, and romance, you must surround yourself with precisely those things.

There is so much love in your heart that you could heal the planet.

If a child is not listening, don't despair. Time and truth are on your side. At the right moment, your words will return as if from heaven itself. Your testimony will never leave your children.

The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.

What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.