When I thought my professional career was over, it hadn't even started yet.

I like almonds as a snack - keeps your energy up but doesn't fill you up.

Anyone who tries to make brownies without butter should be arrested.

Grilled cheese and tomato soup is the ultimate comfort meal.

Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.

People have more fun if they don't eat so much they have to be taken home in an ambulance.

You can be miserable before you have a cookie and you can be miserable after you eat a cookie but you can't be miserable while you are eating a cookie.

Fun is the most important. If you do stuff for money, it never works out.

Food is not about impressing people. It's about making them feel comfortable.

Every once in a while, a cookbook comes along that simply knocks me out.

Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.

Everybody is on something these days. It's a racket. Overprescribing, masking the problem.

The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.

Jihad is nothing but making efforts to realise goodness in life.

She used to pride herself on her refusal to see two sides of an argument, but increasingly she accepts that issues are more ambiguous and complicated than she once thought.

I never reread a text until I have finished the first draft. Otherwise it's too discouraging.

We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

If you insist on asking me why I feel the way I do, I plan to take the Fifth Amendment.

I have a great career, and I have my daughter. Sio what I don't have is not as important to as what I do have.

I would do the baby voice and it's kind of like this character I made up. But in real life, I'm completely different. I'm very smart. I think a lot of people will assume I'm an airhead.