Backyard barbecues are really just about getting together. It's all about making people come over, having a really good time, talking about their lives, and sharing some great recipes.

Great cooking is about being inspired by the simple things around you - fresh markets, various spices. It doesn't necessarily have to look fancy.

If you have a sweet tooth, you'll have a sweet mouth when you're done, because all your teeth are going to be sweet.

If I had to have a favorite chef, I'd probably say I like Guy Fieri.

Remembering that moment stirs something inside -- anger, at first, and then a deep, hollow sadness that ripples through me in its own spiderweb pattern.

How can you introduce error into the Bible? Have a human open it. The moment he reads it, the Bible because weighted down with his biases and expectations.

The last Bible I looked at contained over 2000 pages, and you humans managed to get yourself kicked out Paradise by page 5. That has to be some kind of record.

A wilderness experience includes a long walk back.

Temptation is not his (Satan's) strongest weapon. Despair is.

The first thing you're going to want to know about me is: Am I a boy, or am I a girl?

Most humans turn away from God simply for the privilege of deluding themselves into thinking they are the masters of their own destiny.

She needed him. More than just his blood or the pleasure he offered with his playground of a body, she needed him—and that was far more terrifying than becoming a blood sucking monster.

And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for.He wished that he had never met any of them.

It pays to be prepared.

It’s natural to overlook and even sacrifice the things that belong to us most easily most gracefully. So here’s me asking you to please not make that mistake.

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.

There's obviously some validity to it. But I think it also points out that you obviously can do it on your own because people have been doing it long before they had the stuff.

The essence of life is in remembering God.

In America, you look at food as bad and guilty. In France, we love food and we enjoy food; food is pleasure.

All that can be done for you is nothing to what you can do for yourself.

I'm an optimist by choice not by stupidity.