For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love?

My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition.

In ancient Greece, the word for "cook, " "butcher, " and "priest" was the same -- mageiros -- and the word shares an etymological root with "magic.

Great cooking is all about the three 'p's: patience, presence, and practice.

We moderns are great compartmentalizers, perhaps never more so than when hungry.

Everybody potentially can be great. It is not only some few people who could be great.

Vickie Lynn Hogan is my birth certificate's name.

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

The truth is you can be orphaned again and again and again. The truth is, you will be. And the secret is, this will hurt less and less each time until you can't feel a thing. Trust me on this.

If the text is God's Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.

We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.

I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps.

Sometimes I feel like she deserves a best friend who is just a little more special.

I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake.

If you want to get somewhere in six months, you're not going to get there by wishing it.