Illness sets the mind free sometimes to roam and surmise.

But I don't want nutrition. I want food!

Dawn comes slowly but dusk is rapid.

There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.

The first gathering of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be mine?

Experience is never at bargain price.

What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander, but it is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the Guinea hen.

In the menu, there should be a climax and a culmination. Come to it gently. One will suffice.

the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.

As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.

Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.

I believe in what you see is what you get, but I also believe in what you see is getting better!

The revised edition of my book "A Woman Of Courage" is now available .

Go right to the solution so that there won't be a problem.-Colette

Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.

Kind words are benedictions. The are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings both to the speaker and hearer of them.

I have always felt that a man's religion was his personal and private affair.

I don't know how many years I can still play. I have to listen to my body and see how it feels.

the bus timetable sites are all run by an inbred cabal of malicious gnomes. Who don’t speak English. And who don’t count very well either. Or tell time. And they certainly can’t read maps.

President Obama is perhaps the smartest person I've ever worked with.

I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.