Porridge and the urban lifestyle don't mix well.

Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff.

Do not be afraid of cooking as your ingredients will know, and misbehave. Enjoy your cooking and the food will behave; moreover it will pass your pleasure on to those who eat it.

If you're going to kill the animal it seems only polite to use the whole thing.

Do not let the word tripe deter you. Let its soothing charms win you over, and enjoy it as do those who always have!

I feel good when I stir something with a spurtle, but I don't make porridge very much in London.

Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.

I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.

We live in a flat; my wife would be happy if we had a house with stairs. Or a little cottage in the country.

I had a holiday job in a kitchen, but I think well draw a polite veil over that. There was nothing joyous or creative about it. And none of this helped my studies.

The universe was a vast expanse, far greater than he could ever conceive, and he had seen but a fraction of an inch of it.

A lot of people prefer to be alone. They would rather be a palm tree on an island. I don't get it.

Every game is critical.

Since at the beginning and end of our lives we are so dependent on other's kindness, how can it be in ......the middle that we would neglect kindness towards others?

I feel like I don't watch that many shows with death.

It is neither a great praise nor a great blame when people say a tendency is in or out of fashion. If a tendency is as it should be at one time, it is always as it should be.

I kind of go for the MGM version of every musical style.

There is no fortune so good that you can find nothing in it to complain of.

I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She made sure we had Christmases. That was my mother. My father wasn't there for that.

Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.