There are five elements: earth, air, fire, water and garlic.

Without garlic I simply would not care to live.

If any one element of French cooking can be called important, basic and essential, that element is soup.

He's not your prince charming if he doesn't make sure you know that you're his princess.

I think inspiration is strongest when I find a balance between observation and participation. You can’t write about what it means to dance by watching from the bleachers.

The Devil craps on the big pile

They can have my beer when they pry it out of my cold, dead hand.

Those who say they would write a book if only they had time will never become authors.

I don't meet the competition, I destroy it.

More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.

No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers.

Nature's imagination far surpasses our own.

The eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. Many a woman who will not show herself at the door, has tipt the sly, the intelligible wink from the window.