You have to do it and do it, until you get it right.

She was my first cat ever, and I thought she was marvelous.

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.

I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

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