In France, Paul explained, good cooking was regarded as a combination of national sport and high art, and wine was always served with lunch and dinner. "The trick is moderation, " he said.

Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured.

I'm afraid that surprise, shock, and regret is the fate of authors when they finally see themselves on the page.

Good french cooking cannot be produced by a zombie cook.

If variety is the spice of life, then my life must be one of the spiciest you ever heard of. A curry of a life. -Paul Child

...The more I learned the more I realized how very much one has to know before one is in-the-know at all.

I discovered that when one follows the artist's eye one sees unexpected treasures in so many seemingly ordinary scenes.

We don't love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them

Loss of worldly riches is better than loss of heavenly treasures.

The foundation that my parents and grandparents instilled in me is unyielding, especially the principle that teaches me to keep God first in all I do.

An independent is a guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.

Once again...welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.

I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm.

I play and I've played in heavy bands, but when I write for myself, I don't particularly feel like writing huge rock riffs. It just doesn't work for me and my voice.

He who passes not his days in the realm of dreams is the slave of the days.

He [P.G.Wodehouse] is I believe, the only man living who speaks with equal fluency the American and English languages.

Fall was slipping quietly into winter