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.

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.

The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famille.

May you find grace to endure every circumstance.

Are you in great physical pain, or is that your thinking expression?

I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.

I am going to be considerate and compassionate to everyone, but my greatest compassion will be for our own struggling citizens.

Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.

There's some people who are not understanding what Limp Bizkit is about. But, then again, who am I to tell people what they can use art for or how they can interpret it?

I just like to switch things up all the time. Like when it comes to singing, I try to find a different character for each song.

Have a great love for those who contradict and fail to love you, for in this way love is begotten in a heart that has no love.

Only the right name gives beings and things their reality. A wrong name makes everything unreal. That's what lies do.

It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity.