One of the things I do in my cookbooks is I will do a conversion from outdoor to indoor grilling so you can do it year-round.

Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.

You don't need to be born with a silver spoon to reach for the brass ring

Sure, you can mix the flour, baking soda, salt, shortening, and the whole nine yards, but why wouldn't you just pull out a box of Bisquick?

I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candles, which are expensive.

Instead of doing cinnamon, nutmeg, and all those baking spices I'll have one spice that's for sweets, and that's pumpkin pie spice.

As a kid, I thought John Denver was the perfect Prince Charming.

Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen. It's fun whether it's baking bread or cookies. With baking, you have to be exact when it comes to ingredients.

Seventy percent store-bought, ready-made plus 30 percent fresh allows you to take 100 percent of the credit.

Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen.

It's really easy to figure out why I love what I love, the holidays and food. I know the difference between having them and not having them.

Others inspire us, information feeds us, practice improves our performance, but we need quiet time to figure things out, to emerge with new discoveries, to unearth original answers.

She was a music I no longer heard, that rang in my mind, itself and nothing else, lost to all sense, but not perished, not perished.

Music is only a means to an end - it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man

I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful.

Successful women have an aura that says ‘I belong in this seat’.

But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?

When you wake up in the morning and nothing hurts, you can be sure you're dead.

I am not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles...The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate.

Oft morning-dreams presage approaching fate; And morning -dreams, as poets tell, are true, Led by pale ghosts, I enter Death's dark gate, And bid the realms of light and life adieu.

Standardization does not produce although admirable as an efficiency method.