Having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat.

Talleyrand said that two things are essential in life: to give good dinners and to keep on fair terms with women. As the years pass and fires cool, it can become unimportant to stay always on fair terms either with women or one's fellows, but a wide and sensitive appreciation of fine flavours can still abide with us, to warm our hearts.

It is hard and perhaps impossible for many people to recognize the difference between innocence and naiveté.

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

Life is hard, we say. An oyster's life is worse. She lives motionless, soundless, her own cold ugly shape her only dissipation.

... living out of sight of any shore does rich and powerfully strange things to humans.

At present, I myself do not know of any local witches or warlocks, but there are several people who seem to have an uncanny power over food.