A party without cake is really just a meeting.

I was a Republican until I got to New York and had to live on $18 a week. It was then that I became a Democrat.

As you get older, you shouldn't waste time drinking bad wine.

In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn't go out and do anything. I found that I got restless.

Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health.

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.

Sometimes ... it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It's really like writing a little short story.