I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.

I like almonds as a snack - keeps your energy up but doesn't fill you up.

Anyone who tries to make brownies without butter should be arrested.

Grilled cheese and tomato soup is the ultimate comfort meal.

Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.

People have more fun if they don't eat so much they have to be taken home in an ambulance.

You can be miserable before you have a cookie and you can be miserable after you eat a cookie but you can't be miserable while you are eating a cookie.

Fun is the most important. If you do stuff for money, it never works out.

Food is not about impressing people. It's about making them feel comfortable.

Every once in a while, a cookbook comes along that simply knocks me out.

Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.

Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man.

I know for an absolute honest-to-goodness fact that life can kick you to pieces, break you into a thousand little shards, and that you can get up again and mend yourself. I promise.

We are the first species to have taken our evolution into our own hands.

The drawings are terribly good.

You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception.

I call prodigy all that is invented, all that begins to exist from the second it is conceived, it is the process not the results, the principle and not the fruits.

The best thing about being 45 is not taking myself so seriously.

Overconfidence comes from fear and doubt, and you boast an ego when you're feeling less than.

Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.

According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world.