A house without a cat is like a day without sunshine, a pie without fromage, a dinner without wine.

The best way to execute French cooking is to get good and loaded and whack the hell out of a chicken.

Upon reflection, I decided I had three main weaknesses: I was confused (evidenced by a lack of facts, an inability to coordinate my thoughts, and an inability to verbalize my ideas); I had a lack of confidence, which cause me to back down from forcefully stated positions; and I was overly emotional at the expense of careful, 'scientific' though. I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.

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

It's fun to get together and have something good to eat at least once a day. That's what human life is all about - enjoying things.

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

Good french cooking cannot be produced by a zombie cook.