How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?

Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

A party without cake is really just a meeting.

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

People who love to eat are always the best people.

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

It's not cold in here, you're just dying.

Leave the gun, take the cannoli--Clemenza to Rocco in the Godfather (1972)

God doesn't need us to give Him our money. He owns everything. Tithing is God's way to grow Christians.

The programmers have another saying: 'The question of whether a machine can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.'

May you know the beauty of your own true nature.

People get annoyed when you try to debug them.

If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me.

Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.

In the Craft the Goddess is not omnipotent. The cosmos is interesting rather than perfect, and everything is not part of some greater plan, nor is all necessarily under control.

When your woman gives you the silent treatment, say you're sorry, or you'll find out how truly sorry you are when her monologue resumes.