It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you.

Almost anything is edible with a dab of French mustard on it.

It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you....Once the warm, salty butter has hit your tongue, you are smitten. Putty in their hands.

There is too much talk of cooking being an art or a science – we are only making ourselves something to eat.

Pamper a tomato, overfeed it, overwater it and you will get a Paris Hilton of a tomato.

Food has been my career, my hobby, and, it must be said, my escape.

Good kitchens are not about size; they are about ergonomics and light.

Real food meas big-flavoured, unpretentious cooking. Good ingredients made into something worth eating. Just nice, uncomplicated food.

It is the deep, salty stickiness of food that intrigues me more than any other quality.

It must have been the lack of nutrients that gave my father his temper. He is not a sweet man despite a very sweet tooth.

Mary Shelley may well have invented science fiction. I think she did! But after that it seemed to be a boys' game.

No! I need to go home, " I say, but then the realization comes: My mother was my home. My mother is dead.

The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.

I meet people in my daily life, people who seem to experience some change and some growth on a personal level, and that gives me hope.

Schrödinger's wave-mechanics is not a physical theory, but a dodge - and a very good dodge too.

The person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is.

I have worked with wool all my life as a designer. There's so much more to it than knitwear - it's an amazingly versatile material and can be used in so many different ways from chic to rustic.

February... Now more than ever one must remind oneself that it is wasteful folly to wish that time would pass, or - as the puritanical old saying used to have it - to kill time until it kills you.

Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.

You put the Set animal in your locker? Do you know how much strength that requires?” “Yeah,” I said. “I was there.