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.

Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die.

I believe in red meat. I often said: red meat and gin.

Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.

Was it a sign of Creeping Decrepitude?

We hit it off immediately, especially Helene, who was a 'swallow-life-in-big-gulps' kind of person.

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.