You don't have to do everything from scratch. Nobody wants to make puff pastry!

I like almonds as a snack - keeps your energy up but doesn't fill you up.

Anyone who tries to make brownies without butter should be arrested.

Grilled cheese and tomato soup is the ultimate comfort meal.

Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.

People have more fun if they don't eat so much they have to be taken home in an ambulance.

You can be miserable before you have a cookie and you can be miserable after you eat a cookie but you can't be miserable while you are eating a cookie.

Fun is the most important. If you do stuff for money, it never works out.

Food is not about impressing people. It's about making them feel comfortable.

Every once in a while, a cookbook comes along that simply knocks me out.

Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.

...there were certain chapters when I stopped writing, saw the domestic situation I was in and thought, "I don't want to face this world, let's get back to the hellish one I'm imagining.

Hope is a flourishing flower.

a voice called out after me, 'life takes us on many divergent paths, and yet we shall meet one more time! Not in the flesh, but in the sun, man's home

Atheism is not a matter of the mind

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

If you love something, set it free.

So many times you can't get a foot in the door unless you're already in the room.

I never struggled with injury problems because of my preparation - in particular my stretching.

For someone to believe in you, is always the best feeling in the world

be aggressive, BE-BE Aggressive! B-E A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E