This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market.

Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.

Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.

I asked Elsie how much food they needed from outside the community. 'Flour and sugar, ' she said, and then thought a bit. 'Sometimes we'll buy pretzels as a spl

If you can win an argument by stretching your lips for a smile, why open your mouth and lose it.

I have too Many Cookies? what do you think?

Let there be a wide breadth of possible ways to create.

I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.

If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.

Family is the most important thing in the world. If everything ended tomorrow and my family was still there, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Woe to the conquered.

Your choices decide your fate. Take the time to make the right ones. If you make a mistake, that's fine; learn from it & don't make it again.

Most comedy comes out of misery.

I've done my share of period stuff. I'm not sure why, but people say I have a period face. The bread and butter of British TV is Jane Austen adaptations and bridges and bonnets and boats and horses.