Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.

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.

You are a man with secrets...and I plan to know them all.

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else you are the one who gets burned.

In Jamaica High School in New York, my coach was Larry Ellis, and he said I could probably make the Olympic team. He gave me something to shoot for.

There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power and feeling if it had swing.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

If you can reduce the power of reaction, you rise much higher.

Wars may be fought by decent men, but they're not won by them.

With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.

Yes, making mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep