In ancient Greece, the word for "cook, " "butcher, " and "priest" was the same -- mageiros -- and the word shares an etymological root with "magic.

For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love?

My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition.

Great cooking is all about the three 'p's: patience, presence, and practice.

We moderns are great compartmentalizers, perhaps never more so than when hungry.

Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.

Democracy works when people claim it as their own

I remember sitting down with the Rockets and saying, 'Yeah. I'm going to retire.' They said, 'Well, we'll give you $9 million.' And I said, 'You got a pen on you?'

I'm not good at chatting right away. Women have to be very patient with me, I suppose.

There's the added element of adrenaline if you're performing. You're aware of spatial relationships and the music.

You don't have to be sick to get better.

The only thing which separates man from child is all the values he has lost over the years.

If it takes seven days to make a living, you ought to be doing something else.

Lay my head on the railroad line. Train come along; pacify my mind.

This bright new year is given me To live each day with zest To daily grow and try to be My highest and my best!