Taxi drivers are the ones who pay me the most attention. They seem to be into River Cottage and have a dream of moving to the country, so I have chats with them.

I refuse to eat a fried egg if the white is still runny or transparent. I really can't be doing it. I always have to flip it over.

Some people do get nervous about cooking for me, others just get extremely irritated by my interfering.

I'm a generous host, but I'm a difficult and interfering guest. When I go around to other people's houses and they're cooking, I'm always telling them what to do.

When I listen and enjoy the deepest silence I hear the sound of universal love and lose myself completely.

You intentionally start small, because you will not be able to compete with an incumbent... because the incumbent is always going to go for the full solution.

Verily a man cannot serve two masters. And I consider the foundation or destruction of a religion far greater than the foundation or destruction of a state, let alone a party.

There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as those that circumstances rudely hindered the development of.

Each book first begins with a little idea.

What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, Ive wrestled with that very question myself.

By the time I was 15 and I stepped in the high school gym, I was just stronger than everybody.

Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand.

If we know how to create the energy of love, understanding, compassion, and beauty, then we can contribute a lot to the world.

Luxury and Ostentation usually make me feel antsy, like I'm going to get a case of gout.