[Bachelors'] approach to gastronomy is basically sexual, since few of them under seventy-nine will bother to produce a good meal unless it is for a pretty woman.

No yoga exercise, no meditation in a chapel filled with music will rid you of your blues better than the humble task of making your own bread.

I notice that as I get rid of the protective covering of the middle years, I am more openly amused and incautious and less careful socially, and that all this makes for increasingly pleasant contacts with the world.

In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone.

I wrote like a junkie. I had to have my daily fix.

old age is more bearable if it can be helped by an early acceptance of being loved and of loving.

I cannot count the good people I know who to my mind would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers.