You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.

I am not a chef. I am not even a trained or professional cook. My qualification is as an eater.

You could probably get through life without knowing how to roast a chicken, but the question is, would you want to?

I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.

You cannot truly say you live well unless you eat well.

Sometimes...we don't want to feel like a postmodern, postfeminist, overstretched woman but, rather, a domestic goddess, trailing nutmeggy fumes of baking pie in our languorous wake.

Sometimes it's good just to be seduced by the particular cheeses spread out in front of you on a cheese counter.

I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble.

I don't believe in low-fat cooking.

I don't believe you can ever really cook unless you love eating.

I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.

Always remember, animals can intimidate men with their strength but men cannot intimidate animals with their intelligence.

Why was it that thoughts and plans always made more sense when confined to one's mind than when they exited one's mouth?

Just stop, for once, answering my questions with a question. And, incidentally, it's my concern because I care about you.

My weapon is literature

Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Safety razors make it hard to grow beards in America: America would be a better place if there were a few bearded, savage, terrible old men.

I have tried to integrate the spirituality into the training in a way that meets my need not to destroy the beauty of it through abstract philosophizing.

The road goes on forever and the party never ends.

I grew up watching British comedy on TV, really.

When two, or more men, know of one and the same fact, they are said to be CONSCIOUS of it one to another; which is as much as to know it together.