It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

To survive, you must tell stories.

But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Courage is the ability to take bold action in spite of fear.

It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. What matters is you can look in the mirror, and love who you see.

A strong mentor can help a young woman find and advance in the career of her dreams that otherwise may have seemed impossible.

Time eateth all things, could old poets say, The times are chang'd, our times drink all away.

Friendship is not possible between two women one of whom is very well dressed.

It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.

Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.

Those who analogize the federal budget to a family's budget must know nothing about either.

Never fear because Triple H is here.

I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.