The shellfish thing is very scary. You have to know the people you buy from and exactly where their wholesalers are getting the fish from.

Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

A party without cake is really just a meeting.

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

People who love to eat are always the best people.

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

...no one likes change unless it is from sommething bad to something good...

There is a Pirate in each of us"!

There is a lot of pain in being lonely, but a lot of beauty in being alone.

All good fortune is a gift of the gods and ... you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good but by being bold.

Personally, I was never the cool kid. I was always sort of a bookworm.

The psycho-physiological hypothesis is both inductively and deductively the sine qua non of the science of psychology.

Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.

I am sure you have met diplomats; they probably travel far less than you do. Okay, they get to know a place very intensely - sometimes only the capitol city.

I still buy CDs and DVDs, but generally for more obscure material.

I had reached up and pulled the castle of dreams down around him.