The best way to execute French cooking is to get good and loaded and whack the hell out of a chicken.

I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white wine. And then we had one of those lovely scalloped dishes and the lovely, creamery buttery sauce. Then we had a roast duck and I don't know what else.

Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die.

I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country.

I wouldn't keep him around long if I didn't feed him well.

I think careful cooking is love, don't you?

A house without a cat is like a day without sunshine, a pie without fromage, a dinner without wine.