You could probably get through life without knowing how to roast a chicken, but the question is, would you want to?

I am not a chef. I am not even a trained or professional cook. My qualification is as an eater.

I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.

You cannot truly say you live well unless you eat well.

Sometimes...we don't want to feel like a postmodern, postfeminist, overstretched woman but, rather, a domestic goddess, trailing nutmeggy fumes of baking pie in our languorous wake.

Sometimes it's good just to be seduced by the particular cheeses spread out in front of you on a cheese counter.

I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble.

I don't believe in low-fat cooking.

I don't believe you can ever really cook unless you love eating.

I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.

Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.

Guess you can take the girl off the Earth but you can’t take the Earth out of the girl. Not completely, anyway.

Knowledge is power, isn't that what we say? But power corrupts. An institution based on knowledge and learning can't help but be a corrupt institution.

When we know our true nature, especially the functioning of the mind, we stop being judgmental and become an inspiration and support to others.

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

You feel real good, Lana. Makes me forget everything else

Alexia,” she hissed to her friend, “there are knees positively everywhere. What do I do?

The capability of human life is beyond our imagination. What counts is the human capacity to investigate and transform our own mind and the world around us in a powerful and positive direction.

News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.

People ask me if my shoes were too small when I was a kid and I say it wouldnt matter how fight my shoes were, I just liked that feeling of them being in there. Thats how I started tapping my toes.

Many of the books on my list are, in my opinion, amazing. Some I didn't like. But I give them all five stars, because stars make people - including me -- happy.