I have trouble with toast. Toast is very difficult. You have to watch it all the time or it burns up.

We are so bemused by our own petard, that we are unable to look at things objectively.

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

Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn.

Be a fearless cook! Try out new ideas and new recipes, but always buy the freshest and finest ingredients, whatever they may be. Furnish your kitchen with the most solid and workmanlike equipment you can find. Keep your knives ever sharp and - toujours bon appetit!

Pro-choice is the only way to be-- because women are human beings, after all, and should be treated as such.

I was kind of an innocent hayseed from a middle-class, utterly nonintellectual background.