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

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?

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

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.

I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry.

Risk is the increased consequence of failure.

I'm just a guy who happens to work in public from time to time. I've built a reputation as an established comic, not as a celebrity - a celebrity is someone who is famous but doesn't do anything.

It's hard for parents just to measure schools.

The motive of fear is the be-all and end-all of religion.

And I read the moral--A brave endeavour To do thy duty, whate'er its worth, Is better than life with love forever, And love is the sweetest thing on earth.

My ideal role would be the lead in a film with a director that I really appreciate and admire.

The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us.

I was taught when there's somethin' you can change around keep quiet, you got nothin' to complain about.

The America's Cup, yachting's great and garish grail, is a tumorous tureen no handsomer than a camel.