Store spices in a cool, dark place, not above your stove. Humidity, light and heat will cause herbs and spices to lose their flavor.

I always like to say that no matter what you want to do in life, if you stick with it, you're bound to eventually get good at it!

I think my family, especially having three teenage sons, keeps my cooking at home grounded and very approachable. I'm definitely not making spumas in my kitchen, that's for sure!

Don't be afraid of change. You may lose something good, but you will gain something better.

If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.

When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.

There's nothing people like better than being asked an easy question. For some reason, we're flattered when a stranger asks us where Maple Street is in our hometown and we can tell him.

Death takes no bribes.

It is an impressive place that smells like the 1950s, when everyone wore starch white shirts and black slacks and perfect crewcuts and worked on massive industrial projects

Why don't they have waiters in waiting rooms?

I like making little videos and little records. I've always loved video cameras and four-track cassette recorders, still cameras, anything.

Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent

Estranged from the tribe that gives no protection, What happens to the soul that hates its reflection?