Some children like to make castles out of their rice pudding, or faces with raisins for eyes. It is forbidden -- so sternly that, when they grow up, they take a horrid revenge by dying meringues pale blue or baking birthday cakes in the form of horseshoes or lyres or whatnot.

Food, like the people who eat it, can be stimulated by wine or spirits. And, as with people, it can also be spoiled.

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

It's a shame to be caught up in something that doesn't absolutely make you tremble with joy.

In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won liberty and freedom; for our Constitution and the due processes of our laws; and for the right to differ in ideas, religion and politics. I am convinced that in your zeal to fight against our enemies, you, too, have forgotten what you are fighting for.

One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry; and one of the lessons is to grin and bear it if it cannot be fixed.

You have to eat to cook. You can't be a good cook and be a noneater. I think eating is the secret to good cooking.