It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.

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.

Words are God’s gift to mend a broken soul.

In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

You matter. You're not broken. You're stronger than you think.

I've found that the way a person feels about cats-and the way they feel about him or her in return-is usually an excellent gauge by which to measure a person's character

Listen, 'real' women are the reason the fashion industry exists.

We can't always take the most obvious road in life.

You really write the books you want to write. You can't take into consideration anything that anybody has said about you in the past, or what they'll say about you in the future.

I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time.

I don't know anybody that's not emotionally unstable or schizophrenic.

Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather. [Lat., Memento, in pellicula, cerdo, tenere tuo.]