A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.

Once my jars were labeled, I felt contentedly thrilled with myself, as if I had pulled off a wonderful trick. People feel this way when they bake bread or have babies, and although they are perfectly entitled to feel that way, in fact, nature does most of the work.

Both happy and sad people can be cheered up by a nice meal.

The sharing of food is the basis of social life.

The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famille.

[On television:] It's made people moronic, it's robbed people of their ability to think. It's done tremendous damage, and every single household that has a small child should take it and throw it out the window.

A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.