When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally.

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.

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.

The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famille.

From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.

I was seduced by the idea that even in the dark, we are still as complex and detailed as we are in the light.

One's character is set at an early age. The choices you make now will affect you for the rest of your life. I hate to see you swim out so far you can't swim back.

Do you know what the greatest test is? Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up in the morning?

Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.

The key to success is to be easy to work with.

Right as an aspen lefe she gan to quake.

I don't think you make documentary films to get your country house. If you're trying to gamble on that, you've very foolish.

Whoever thinks he is objective must already be half drunk.

When it comes to e-book playback devices and software, I have always thought that the emphasis on ergonomic concerns as a tipping point for the end-user population was misplaced.