The longer you live, the more likely you are to have something to say.

Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was the lifes work of a real person or family, people who built their lives around a promise and watched it break.

For scientists, reality is not optional.

Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the glittering sand bars to the sea.

Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.

Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.