We are so bemused by our own petard, that we are unable to look at things objectively.

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.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

Happiness is 'happening' in the good souls, those God loves. That love is mirrored in terms of Happiness.

In friendship, we are all debtors. We all owe each other for a thousand small kindnesses, for little moments of grace in the chaos.

People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.

Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

So, if I were arrested or if I were killed, then after me the issues that American fears about me wouldn't exist anymore - and I couldn't tell you what those issues are

A goal is a goal no matter which end it goes in. I'm pleased to get off the mark again.

You can run a sprint or your can run a marathon, but you can't sprint a marathon.

I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.