You may feel that you have eaten too much...But this pastry is like feathers - it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive!

A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet.

It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it

The oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life. Indeed, his chance to live at all is slim, and if he should survive the arrows of his own outrageous fortune and in the two weeks of his carefree youth find a clean smooth place to fix on, the years afterwards are full of stress, passion, and danger.

Brioches are a light, pale yellow, faintly sweet kind of muffin with a characteristic blob on top, rather like a mushroom just pushing crookedly through the ground. Once eaten in Paris, they never taste as good anywhere else.

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

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.