You need a balance in life between dealing with whats going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.

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.

Helpless, I clenched my fists against my back, well aware that every mile, every minute that ticked by, took me ever farther from getting to them in time and closer to losing the red dragon forever.

The more closely two organisms depend upon each other the harder it becomes to tell where one organism ends and the other begins.

When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.

I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main matterfor that I have determined for myself.

Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.

I don't have the will for singing but I must do it.

I am definitely not rich.

You've got balls inviting me here.

It makes it [work] a lot easier when you like what you do. It's easy when you're working and making money doing it. It's hard when you're not. That's when that gets challenged.

Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none