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

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.

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.

Some heat, some spice and plenty of citrus are the building blocks of many north African fish dishes.

The fantasies of dying could be no stranger than the fantasies of living. Survival is perhaps the strangest fantasy of them all.

Being comfortable with who you are is the ultimate threat.

I love when I get stories of young women that have overcome things such as birth defects that they've been hated on for or even just their own body confidence stories.

I think it's important to find a line that suits your body, your body type, that you're comfortable in.

It will shock many - I've lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star.

The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.

A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness

I don't in any way believe that I'm special.

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.