No vegetable exists which is not better slightly undercooked.

The only thing that will make a souffle fall is if it knows you're afraid of it.

The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it… If you’re convinced that cooking is drudgery, you’re never going to be good at it, and you might as well warm up something frozen.

If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork.

Too many simple green salads suffer from a lack of imagination.

When you cook, you never stop learning. That's the fascination of it all.

I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking.

Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.

There is absolutely no substitute for the best. Good food cannot be made of inferior ingredients masked with high flavor. It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.

The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it.

Too few people understand a really good sandwich.

In politics all abstract terms conceal treachery.

The arts are the best Time Machine we have." C. S. Lewis

When you have wings of love to fly, why do you sit in a prison and cry?

I like to have a regimen. I don't like to be fancy free.

There's nothing that defines who you are more than boundaries, whether you cross them or not, in every aspect of your life, and horror is a really great boundary.

We make each other alive; it doesn’t make a difference if it hurts.

I know i'll screw up. But i'll keep trying, as long as you let me.

The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.

Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

It can always get worse.