You dont need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.

Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.

Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.

A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.

The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.

Breakfast is always the best time for something juicy, sweet and fresh - it just feels like the right way to open the day. There's no right way, though, when it comes to choosing the fruit.

Mothers and grandmothers: these are the people that I admire most, not so much chefs.

Just-poached vegetables show off their natural attributes, and taste fresh and light in a way you never get with roasting or frying.

Date syrup is a natural sweetener that has wonderful richness and treacly depth; I drizzle it over semolina porridge.

The way to entice people into cooking is to cook delicious things.

For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade.

I don't care, " said Seth. "I would have done it. I would have sold my soul for you. You and me...I told you. Something's always going to keep us near each other...even if we aren't together.

Don't feed your ego with my soul.

In every moment, you make decisions based on your beliefs or inspiration which comes to you directly from the divine/universe.

And all the loveliest things there be Come simply so it seems to me.

Fear could never make a virtue.

I see myself as Rhoda not Mary Tyler Moore.

I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

I always try to go where the excitement is, where the best music is. I dont care what kind of music it is. I go with the best artist we can find.

Doubtful prayer is no prayer at all.

I love to go into the studio on days when I'm not even doing anything. It's like my senior club. Some people go to senior centers, well I go to my senior center.