Writing- the profession in which you stare at a computer screen, stare out the window, type a few words, then curse repeatedly.

I've got quite a memory. Engraved in my mind, things are. I can't forget anything...It's not a sign of intelligence...Nothing to boast about, memory...that's just how it is...

Even discomfort or pain delivers awareness of life, and an opportunity for gratitude.

The only limitations are mental. The guy who thinks positively will win.

When I started to write culinary mysteries, I did it because nobody was doing it anymore.

When you are doing what you love to do, you become resilient.

America is a hot chick with a bad personality. Take her seriously and you'll end up hating yourself.

The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It's in the blood.

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

I've never been good at rock'n'roll songs, anyway; either I'm blessed or I'm cursed, but whatever I write comes out sounding old.

We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.