One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry; and one of the lessons is to grin and bear it if it cannot be fixed.

Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

A party without cake is really just a meeting.

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

People who love to eat are always the best people.

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces...

I was once in captivity but now I am saved by grace.

I want to feel proud and happy about my selflessness. But what happens when being selfless takes away a big part of your self?

Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.

The Miami Dolphins have to be taken seriously. Here's a team that seems to be jelling.

I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid.

Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.

Two cannibals were eating a comedian, and one of them turns to the other and asks, 'Does this taste funny to you?

With marriage, you've just got to stick it out. You can't jump off the boat at the first bump in the waves.

If there is knowledge, it lies in the fusion of the book and the street.