Always remember: If you're alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who's going to know?

Eating is the secret to good cooking.

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.

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.

We had a happy marriage because we were together all the time. We were friends as well as husband and wife. We just had a good time.

To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating.

The sweetness and generosity and politeness and gentleness and humanity of the French had shown me how lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.