As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.

What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander, but it is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the Guinea hen.

Experience is never at bargain price.

the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.

Sex is perhaps like culture - a luxury that only becomes an art after generations of leisurely acquaintance. Why we scarcely approach either as individuals - it's mass propulsion still!

Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.

The first gathering of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be mine?