Wine is meant to be with food - that's the point of it.

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

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.

Just how could a nation often be great if it's bread tastes want Kleenex.

I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.

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

People were hysterical about Communism the way people today are hysterical about flag burning. I'm really against these people who try to show that they're great patriots, because they're not thinking, they're just being hysterical.