Good french cooking cannot be produced by a zombie cook.

Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured.

I'm afraid that surprise, shock, and regret is the fate of authors when they finally see themselves on the page.

If variety is the spice of life, then my life must be one of the spiciest you ever heard of. A curry of a life. -Paul Child

...The more I learned the more I realized how very much one has to know before one is in-the-know at all.

I discovered that when one follows the artist's eye one sees unexpected treasures in so many seemingly ordinary scenes.

In France, Paul explained, good cooking was regarded as a combination of national sport and high art, and wine was always served with lunch and dinner. "The trick is moderation, " he said.

I know that story, when you start a fight, the main idea is one to survive, one to be the victim and one to be the killer. This explains why FBI, CSI and DIA and other departments are here!

Be the thermostat in your community, the one who makes a change. Not the thermometer who, just watches

Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense.

I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day.

I'm going to be meeting with people today who talk too much - people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't be surprised or disturbed, for I can't imagine a world without such people.

Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve in another.

As soon as people decide to confront a problem, they realize that they are far more capable than they thought they were.

Whenever I see young girls wearing way too much makeup... you're young, you don't need that much.

I really love working with brands that are either at the cutting-edge, or are making that first step towards making change within their brand lines.

When my story stalls on me, I've played my hand too soon.