What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander, but it is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the Guinea hen.

But I don't want nutrition. I want food!

Dawn comes slowly but dusk is rapid.

There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.

The first gathering of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be mine?

Experience is never at bargain price.

In the menu, there should be a climax and a culmination. Come to it gently. One will suffice.

Illness sets the mind free sometimes to roam and surmise.

the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.

As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.

Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.

Not all friends know they have lost you.

Delight is indeed born in the heart. It sometimes also depends on its surroundings.

To understand the truth of everything, it took guts more than simply thinking.

I'm just a demon that means well. Freelance for God, but do the work of Satan.

To dream in isolation can be properly splendid to be sure; but to dream in company seems to me infinitely preferable.

People come up to me and say, 'Emo, do people really come up to you?'

Let nature be in your yard.

Your life will never improve unless you start making daily improvements.

I think the essence of [Kurt] Vonnegut's humanism lay in his emphasis on human kindness as, so to speak, our saving grace.

Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.