...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.

Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

A party without cake is really just a meeting.

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

People who love to eat are always the best people.

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

When you sit alone and think out your thoughts … then that is your loudest cry!

Sophie clutched Grant tighter. 'I don’t know what screwed-up messages from your family are floating around in your head right now, but you’re staying right here.

Lucky ain’t a puppy no more and he don’t bark for just any old reason. It takes a mailman, a squirrel, a car, a bird, a blowing leaf, or a tumbling scrap of paper to get him stirred up now.

I cried when I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. And then I laughed REALLY hard.

The superior artist is the one who knows how to be influenced.

I went to my doctor and asked for something for persistent wind. He gave me a kite.

Once you stay true to just having a good time and being honest to your fans and your audience, you can't go wrong.

I've learned a heck of a lot this way [making Dark Tower comics]. I've also learned a lot from the editors at Marvel, who are always an equal part in the creative team.

I have been around conservatives my entire life. I have never met a single human being, in any place, who wanted to ban contraceptives.