When there is very little else left to believe in, one can still believe in an honest loaf of fragrant, home-baked bread.

We all eat & it would be a sad waste of opportunity to eat badly.

Food binds us to our roots as strongly as any song or poem. Many of us have learned more about our ancestors in the kitchen than we ever will from a book.

Cooking is mythology - a story told over and over, passed on again and again, always with the same meaning but expressed in endlessly different ways.

Good food is a celebration of life, and it seems absurd to me that in celebrating life we should take life. That is why I don't eat flesh. I see no need for killing.

The dictators, commanders or emperors who want to conquer the world soon realize that the world has already been conquered by the artists and their arts!

When kids my age were picking up toy cars, I used to buy toy guns.

Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

You can always tell a novice rider; they aren't comfortable in the saddle and have to hang on.

As long as you have not grasped that you have to die to grow, you are a troubled guest on the dark earth".

I never cared who scored the goal, or which side won the silver cup. I never learned to bat or bowl; but I heard the curtain going up.

Dance until you shatter yourself.

Law of the jungle. The betrayee gets to eat the betrayer. --Dante Pontis

If you take my entire golfing life, my favorites are the older courses, the more traditional and the more authentic.

Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.