When I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more people cook from that book than any other I've written in the past 30 years.

You can't escape the taste of the food you had as a child. In times of stress, what do you dream about? Your mother's clam chowder. It's security, comfort. It brings you home.

Cooking is the art of adjustment.

If you have extraordinary bread and extraordinary butter, it's hard to beat bread and butter.

When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose a Cabernet or Pinot Noir, or maybe a Syrah, depending on the sauce and what is in my cellar.

My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you get older, you start to take away.

When you are at home, even if the chicken is a little burnt, what's the big deal? Relax.

Great cooking favors the prepared hands.

After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!

When you become a good cook, you become a good craftsman, first. You repeat and repeat and repeat until your hands know how to move without thinking about it.

I am a glutton. I'll eat whatever is there. Pizza. I love hot dogs anywhere. I've got nothing against any of that. If I feel like eating, I eat. I don't feel guilty about it at all.

We are never alone God will always be with us.

You gotta keep that in check - you got to.

We need policies for long-term security that are designed by women, focused on women, executed by women not at the expense of men, or instead of men, but alongside and with men.

As we hang beneath the heavens, and we hover over hell, our hearts become the instruments we learn to play so well.

I really am enjoying writing more than ever. I feel like I'm so much more focused than I was in the early times.

The visual is essentially pornographic, which is to say that it has its end in rapt, mindless fascination.

I definitely know the minister Honorable Louis Farrakhan. But I don't really believe in organized religion like that. I don't know what it does for people in the long run.

I'd rather take a contested shot than an open shot any day ... It's kind of boring when you take open shots

Your reign on the top was short like leprechauns, As I crush so-called Willies, thugs, and rapper-dons.

While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of love.