Unlike some people, who love to go out, I love to stay home.

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.

A 65 year old woman questioning herself is no different than a 15 year old girl launching herself.

Women hope men will change after marriage but they don't; men hope women won't change but they do.

The icing on the cake is when other people enjoy your vision and support what you do.

The habit of mind which leads to a search for relationships between facts becomes of the highest importance in the production of ideas.

To obtain success, you must get the most out of your ability and to do that you must work on your weaknesses.

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?

Tonglen is a way for you to be with people who need you - beginning with yourself.

Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come.

Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.