There is nothing like soup. It is by nature eccentric: no two are ever alike, unless of course you get your soup in a can.

No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.

A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.

When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally.

People who like to cook like to talk about food....without one cook giving another cook a tip or two, human life might have died out a long time ago.

Lentils are friendly - the Miss Congeniality of the bean world.

And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends.

The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a person giving: Even the simplest food is a gift.

Friendship is not possible between two women one of whom is very well dressed.

A person cooking is a person giving. Even the simplest food is a gift.

We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us.

He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really had

This secret-keeping business was not for me.

It's weak to speak and blame somebody else ...When you destroy yourself.

We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That's what connects us-that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect.

Prevention is a very important part of solving the problem of cancer.

Earth is a silly name for this planet.

You never ask why you've been fired because if you do, they're liable to tell you.

My game is a lot about footwork. If I move well, I play well.

At the level at which I work with people, their great talent is paired with great insecurity. Self-doubt is literally the twin of self-confidence. And I have to be there for both.

A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't.