Freshness is essential. That makes all the difference.

I fell in love with the public, the public fell in love with me, and I tried to keep it that way.

We hit it off immediately, especially Helene, who was a 'swallow-life-in-big-gulps' kind of person.

The dinner hour is a sacred, happy time when everyone should be together and relaxed.

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.

Just how could a nation often be great if it's bread tastes want Kleenex.

The sweetness and generosity and politeness and gentleness and humanity of the French had shown me how lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.