There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.

But I don't want nutrition. I want food!

Dawn comes slowly but dusk is rapid.

The first gathering of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be mine?

Experience is never at bargain price.

What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander, but it is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the Guinea hen.

In the menu, there should be a climax and a culmination. Come to it gently. One will suffice.

Illness sets the mind free sometimes to roam and surmise.

the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.

As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.

Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.

Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.

The first step in faith is to stop thinking about God at the time of prayer.-

Every time I get into a Nationwide car after being in a Cup car, I feel so much more comfortable than I did previously.

I can't know what I'm going to do before I'm in front of the lens. And I think that sort of makes it exciting.

All biographers, no matter how sympathetic, end up using their subjects as mirrors to figure themselves out. I don't want to be anyone's mirror.

I'll be dammed if I sit around another year, Dreamin' dreams hopin' somehow that they just appear.

What you risk reveals what you value.

I'm as radical as libertarians come.

In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts.

You know, you're kind of squeamish for such a lethal person