When you are at home, even if the chicken is a little burnt, what's the big deal? Relax.

You can't escape the taste of the food you had as a child. In times of stress, what do you dream about? Your mother's clam chowder. It's security, comfort. It brings you home.

Cooking is the art of adjustment.

If you have extraordinary bread and extraordinary butter, it's hard to beat bread and butter.

When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose a Cabernet or Pinot Noir, or maybe a Syrah, depending on the sauce and what is in my cellar.

My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you get older, you start to take away.

Great cooking favors the prepared hands.

After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!

When you become a good cook, you become a good craftsman, first. You repeat and repeat and repeat until your hands know how to move without thinking about it.

I am a glutton. I'll eat whatever is there. Pizza. I love hot dogs anywhere. I've got nothing against any of that. If I feel like eating, I eat. I don't feel guilty about it at all.

It's more useful to have knowledge about cuts of meat than a lot of money.

Richard Wright, a Mississippi-born negro, has written a blinding and corrosive study in hate. It is a novel entitled "Native Son".

Surrender is the only path to supernatural living.

True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.

Envy is when you resent God's goodness in other people's lives and ignore God's goodness in your own life.

I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length.

You know, anyone who wears glasses, in one sense or another, is a cyborg.

Government has no Right to hurt a hair of the head of an Atheist, for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices.

If one didn't have love, was it better, then, to be alone?

I try to meet people where they are.

I’m going to be exposed, aren’t I? (Acheron) I don’t know. You planning on dropping your pants around me? If so, warn me first. I don’t want to go blind. (Savitar)