More important, you have to stay happy and positive or the stress will kill you - but at least it will make you skinny

I love to cook. I make an award-winning turkey chili.

My mom has this great skiing event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year for a local charity.

It's challenging, but you have to at least try to eat right and exercise.

I am vegetarian, though, and so is my family.

I've never been a waif; I have a womanly figure and always did.

I'm sure that my mom would have been happy with any path I chose.

I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet.

Eating vegetables makes me feel good.

I am still learning every day not to watch other people's careers and compare.

I'm obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make everything look so easy when it isn't.

Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.

...which recall(s) a moment in time when raw excess made them a casual aristocracy, apart from the rest of the world.

After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

The hand can be quicker than the eye, and the mouth can be quicker than the brain.

Those who are ashamed of what they ought not to be ashamed; and are not ashamed of what they ought to be - such men, embracing erroneous views, enter the woeful path.

All obedience begins in the affections, and nothing in religion is done right, that is not done there first.

I came to America when I was seven and a half in 91. I think the first full length book in English that I read was Return to Oz when I was nine years old.

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.