The best way to eat crabs, as everyone knows, is off newspaper at a large table with a large number of people.

No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.

A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.

When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally.

People who like to cook like to talk about food....without one cook giving another cook a tip or two, human life might have died out a long time ago.

Lentils are friendly - the Miss Congeniality of the bean world.

And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends.

The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a person giving: Even the simplest food is a gift.

Friendship is not possible between two women one of whom is very well dressed.

A person cooking is a person giving. Even the simplest food is a gift.

We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us.

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.

I love my pizza so much, in fact, that I have come to believe in my delirium that my pizza might actually love me, in return. I am having a relationship with this pizza, almost an affair.

There are two ways to be happy: Change the situation, or change your mindset towards it.

To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation.

I come from a lot of different worlds, and you can't really place me in a category. I'm just kind of me, and that's what you get.

I wish I wasn't so technically challenged, because it puts you at a distinct disadvantage. I wish I could figure out a way to get more up to speed.

I urge you by all this is dear, by all that is honorable, by all that is sacred, not only that you pray but also that you act!

Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.

Men's minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent.

Nothing turns off an investor more than when an entrepreneur comes in with a ridiculous valuation.