... there can be no more shameless carelessness than with the food we eat for life itself.

People ask me: "Why do you write about food, and eating, and drinking? Why don't you write about the struggle for power and security, and about love, the way the others do?" . . . The easiest answer is to say that, like most other humans, I am hungry.

When shall we live if not now?

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

For me, a plain baked potato is the most delicious one....It is soothing and enough.

War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist

Probably no strychnine has sent as many husbands into their graves as mealtime scolding has, and nothing has driven more men into the arms of other women as the sound of a shrill whine at table.