There is too much talk of cooking being an art or a science – we are only making ourselves something to eat.

Almost anything is edible with a dab of French mustard on it.

It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you.

It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you....Once the warm, salty butter has hit your tongue, you are smitten. Putty in their hands.

Pamper a tomato, overfeed it, overwater it and you will get a Paris Hilton of a tomato.

Food has been my career, my hobby, and, it must be said, my escape.

Good kitchens are not about size; they are about ergonomics and light.

Real food meas big-flavoured, unpretentious cooking. Good ingredients made into something worth eating. Just nice, uncomplicated food.

It is the deep, salty stickiness of food that intrigues me more than any other quality.

It must have been the lack of nutrients that gave my father his temper. He is not a sweet man despite a very sweet tooth.

Do you know what the luckiest thing is?’‘No.’‘It is to be at home everywhere.

No other place can so convincingly claim to be the capital of capitalism, the capital of the 20th century and the capital of the world.

To me marriage is for five or ten years

Every time I learn the truth about something, I’m disappointed

Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.

Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water

Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.

In some ways, I think it's the closest that we come to the truth — is in the form of fiction.

The Catholic Church sees voluntary vampirism as a kind of suicide. I tend to agree. Though the Pope also excommunicated all animators, unless we ceased raising the dead. Fine; I became Episcopalian.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.