Prisoners learn how to make do with less, and many of them want to take this ingenuity that they've learned to the outside ... but there's no training, nothing to prepare them for that.

Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy.

Scallops are expensive, so they should be treated with some class. But then, I suppose that every creature that gives his life for our table should be treated with class.

The squid is so cooperative. Its body forms a tube that can be stuffed with marvelous fillings. You don't have to be Greek to enjoy this one.

How can people say they don't eat eggplant when God loves the color and the French love the name? I don't under'stand.

All kids draw some kind of cartoon characters. They just grow out of them, and I didn't

CONTROL MYSELF?!! I'm a MONSTER! Monsters don't control themselves! That's the whole IDEA!

Smiley Bone: You can't feel safe unless there's something to be safe against! Phoney Bone: Exactly! People like to be victims! There's a certain unassailable moral superiority about it.

Serve this dish with much too much wine for your guests, along with some cooked green vegetables and a huge salad. You will be famous in about half an hour.

Feasting is also closely related to memory. We eat certain things in a particular way in order to remember who we are. Why else would you eat grits in Madison, New Jersey?

I don't go for the nouvelle approach - serving a rabbit rump with coffee extract sauce and a slice of kiwi fruit.

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom.

I have never, in all my life, been so odious as to regard myself as 'superior' to any living being, human or animal. I just walked alone - as I have always walked alone.

It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.

Giving appreciations, praise, and gratitudes feels good and puts good vibes in the environment.

Learn at every opportunity. What your learn is always yours.

A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.

After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.

It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.

So. You're a fallen angel." She folded her arms. "I'm not fallen," he said roughly. "Then what are you?" He shrugged. "Busted.