Mastering the Art of French Cooking... doesn't mean it has to be fancy cooking, although it can be as elaborate as you wish.

We should enjoy food and have fun. It is one of the simplest and nicest pleasures in life.

Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn.

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.

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.

How lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.

If you don't pick your audience, you're lost because you're not really talking to anybody.