She was a great cook, but she cooked more for herself than for other people, not because she was hungry but because she was comforted by the rituals of the kitchen.

Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.

Plain fresh bread, its crust shatteringly crisp. Sweet cold butter. There is magic in the way they come together in your mouth to make a single perfect bite.

One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don't know how to do, to keep learning.

...it was so rich and exotic I was seduced into taking one bite and then another as I tried to chase the flavors back to their source.

Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner

...in the end you are the only one who can make yourself happy. More important, ...it is never too late to find out how to do it.

It is not 'only' food, I said heatedly. There's meaning hidden underneath each dish.

When a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end.

Life is so endlessly delicious

I had done this. I had pulled my life apart. I would never, ever be safe again.

Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life.

I try to cherish the moments I have, for I dread the day I get out of the tub and the wrinkles won't go away...

There is every reason to think that in the coming years Mars and its mysteries will become increasingly familiar to the inhabitants of the Planet Earth.

If you are going to be a successful duck hunter, you must go where the ducks are.

One religion after another has accepted and perpetuated man's original mistake in making a private servant of the mother of the race.

I can't fool myself into thinking that musically I don't need other people, whether it's as a foil or just to come in and make real the ideas that are kind of vague and wispy in my head.

The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.

Racing is a calling, a passion.

All the creatures living on Earth behave more or less the same way!

Rembrandt is so deeply mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language.