Not everyone in Italy may know how to cook, but nearly everyone knows how to eat. Eating in Italy is one more manifestation of the Italian's age-old gift of making art out of life.

Cooking is an art, but you eat it too.

What people do with food is an act that reveals how they construe the world.

The Italian comes to his table with the same open heart with which a child falls into his mother's arms, with the same easy feeling of being in the right place.

I don't cook 'concepts.' I use my head, but I cook from the heart, I cook for flavor.

And while other passions in your life may at some point begin to bank their fires, the shared happiness of good homemade food can last as long as we do.

I need to smell its smells, to hear its sounds, to see food in a pot that simmers, bubbles, sizzles. I enjoy the physical involvement of stirring, turning, poking, mashing, scraping.

[On cooking:] What you keep out is as significant as what you put in.

80% of Italian cooking is done in a sauté pan.

There are edges around the black and every now and then a flash of color streaks out of the gray. But I can never really grasp any of the slivers of memories that emerge.

Isn’t it true that philosophy is a barrier? For sure it screens and modifies every bit of information that the mind allows to enter.

People do not lack strength they lack will.

Talent is only a starting point.

I'm one of the top 2 or 3 or 4 most conservative members in the House of Representatives when it comes to economics.

Healthcare has been the last major industry that hasn't been touched by technology in terms of productivity and consumer adoption in the way so many other industries have.

A movement only becomes a movement of substance, size, and power when the artists say 'we want to add our voice.'

You must not lie about trilobites, nor yet about time.

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I'm probably the only bestselling author you know who's written more books than she's read.