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.

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

It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.

It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions.

How lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.

I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male.

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