I always loved to cook and entertain but I realized I had the chance to be successful with something that I am passionate about.

I love brunch because it's breakfast and lunch why not.

You need to know your craft.

I practice self-control and staying active. Running round the kitchen keeps me moving.

...[O]ne of the first things a Magnolia League debutante learns: Keep your thoughts and opinions to yourself.

My fear of loneliness is like a disease.

It wont do to say that the reader is too dumb or too lazy to keep pace with the train of thought. If the reader is lost, it's usually because the writer hasn't be careful enough.

Everybody should have a librarian.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

Mario Lemieux is Mr. Pittsburgh.

Gentlemen prefer blondes... but gentlemen marry brunettes.

Heroic poetry has ever been esteemed the greatest work of human nature.

Boredom makes me sleepy or restless.

Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.