In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect.

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.

What are we doing to each other? Because I know that I am doing to him exactly what he is doing to me. We are sometimes so happy, and never in our lives have we known more unhappiness.

Never trust a man who reads only one book.

for Pop, who sees the starsand Jude, who hears their music

Love is the ultimate no-calorie sweetener.

Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.

Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings.

Every once in a while when I get a migraine, I like to think, "Who hates me today?"

The first World Cup I remember was in the 1950 when I was 9 or 10 years old. My father was a soccer player, and there was a big party, and when Brazil lost to Uruguay, I saw my father crying.

One man thinks before he acts. Another man thinks after he acts. Each is of the opinon that the other thinks too much.

Strength is but one aspect of power.