...it was so rich and exotic I was seduced into taking one bite and then another as I tried to chase the flavors back to their source.

Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.

Plain fresh bread, its crust shatteringly crisp. Sweet cold butter. There is magic in the way they come together in your mouth to make a single perfect bite.

One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don't know how to do, to keep learning.

Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner

...in the end you are the only one who can make yourself happy. More important, ...it is never too late to find out how to do it.

She was a great cook, but she cooked more for herself than for other people, not because she was hungry but because she was comforted by the rituals of the kitchen.

It is not 'only' food, I said heatedly. There's meaning hidden underneath each dish.

When a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end.

Life is so endlessly delicious

I had done this. I had pulled my life apart. I would never, ever be safe again.

He rubbed his hands up and down, warming her. “Then that’s all you need to know. I have you. If there are beasties in the dark, they have to get through me.

The organized domestic terrorism of the general public is why many people regard the police as corrupt.

Self-care is never selfish, but it may feel that way when you live a frenzied life.

I have a friend - I send her one text and I get 20 texts back. Guys don't want a million texts. It's exhausting.

As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister.

The only pressure that you use in a professional selling presentation is the presence of silence after the closing question.

That all power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws, by any authority, without consent of the representatives of the people, is injurious to their rights, and ought not to be exercised.

The way I paint, the scale of the information in the images which I want to paint demand space.

A scavenger who works in His service shares equal distinction with a king who uses his gifts in His name and is a mere trustee.

To say that being non-judgmental is better than being judgmental is itself a judgment, and therefore a violation of principle.